Where is CASE?????

[Norman Shelley]

This argument is similiar to Bertrand Meyer's argument for not having a
CASE statement in early versions of Eiffel.  He finally "saw the light"
and added in the CASE statement.  I believe he finally saw the need to
efficiently be able to handle character and string data (real world data
that has not yet been objectized).



Larry Smith wrote:

> ...
>
> However, in Guido's defense, I will also point out the
> primary use of case statements is to select alternatives
> based on a type flag - which is not needed in an object
> oriented language.
>
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