Re: Switch/Case statements revisited

[David Given <dg@...>]

steve donovan wrote:
[...]
> The variable match syntax is nice and very general. My only concern is
> that the pipe character tends to have other associations. Is it
> Lua-ish?

It looks stolen from functional languages, IIRC --- most languages of 
the Haskell or ML stable support this kind of pattern matching. It is, 
indeed, great.

(Although the use of special characters doesn't really fit the Lua 
style, which normally goes for keywords. Perhaps:

match k
  with 10, 11 then return 1 end
  with 12 then return 2 end
  with i if 13<=i and i<=16 then return 4 end
end

(That also ends up having a nice simple grammar, too.)

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David Given
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