Yet Another Switch-Case Syntax Proposal
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Thu Apr 3 14:23:39 EDT 2014
On 04/03/2014 09:02 AM, Lucas Malor wrote:
>
> In reply to Ian Kelly:
>>
>> Instead of disabling fallthrough by default, why not disable it all together?
>
> I was tempted but there are cases in which it's useful. An example
>
> switch day casein ("Monday", "Thursday", "Wednesday", "Tuesday", "Friday"):
> gotowork = True
> continue
> casein ("Monday", "Thursday", "Wednesday", "Tuesday", "Friday"):
> daytype = "ferial"
> casein ("Saturday", "Sunday")
> daytype = "festive"
Absolutely not. Currently, the 'continue' key word means "stop processing and go back to the beginning". You would
have it mean "keep going forward". Thus 'continue' would mean both "go backwards" and "go forwards" and would lead to
unnecessary confusion.
--
~Ethan~
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