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Re: Case Construct

• Posted by ken mortenson <kenneth_john at y?h?o.com> May 27, 2008
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I've been thinking about branching syntax...

if (expression) then
    some_code
else
    other_code
end if

if (expr)
  case 1
    some_code
  case 2
    other_code
  else
    more_code
end if

if_any (expr)
  case 1, 25
    some_code
    exit
  case > 10
    other_code
  case < 5
    code_in_addition_to_other_code
  else
    code_if_none_of_the_above
end if

THEN and CASE after the expression distinguishes the two.

if_any allows fall through because sometimes that is useful.

Muliple cases on a single line is also very useful;  Would it be
confusing to have a sequence represent the multiple cases?  Probably
a comma delimited list would be better.