• mandel (6/6) Jul 28 2007 Hi,
• Jason House (3/12) Jul 28 2007 What is your proposed alternate syntax for case statements. You can't

mandel <mandel mailinator.com> writes:

Hi,

simple question; do we need to write "case"
inside a switch statement? Is it needed for parsing?
To me it seems to be superfluous
and could be removed or at least made optional.

Opinions?

Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> writes:

mandel wrote:
 Hi,
 
 simple question; do we need to write "case"
 inside a switch statement? Is it needed for parsing?
 To me it seems to be superfluous
 and could be removed or at least made optional.
 
 Opinions?
 

What is your proposed alternate syntax for case statements.  You can't 
replace case A: with A: because then it'd look like a line label.