Yet Another Switch-Case Syntax Proposal

[Ethan Furman]

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.

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~Ethan~