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Re: Case Construct

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at ?mail.c?m> May 10, 2008
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Michael J. Sabal wrote:
> 
> Forgive me for asking, but what benefit does case offer over elsif other than
> saving a handful of keystrokes?

A C-style case statement also offers fall through:

switch foo do
    case bar:
        -- do stuff
        exit
    case special_baz
        -- do stuff, then continue with normal baz

    case baz
        -- do baz stuff
        exit

    default
        -- do stuff
end switch

Matt