Re: Yet Another Switch-Case Syntax Proposal

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On 2014-04-03 19:23, Ethan Furman wrote:
> 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.
>
I thought it went to the end of the loop, but because it's a loop, it
just wraps around back to the top...

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