[osflash] switch - case

[Dan Shryock]

Nope, you're not missing anything, that was exactly my point because that's
all people are getting by using the switch statement in the way that they
are.  The syntax that I suggested is actually the only way of doing that
sort of logic in xsl and jstl (using xml format of course).

Dan

On 2/16/06, Scott Hyndman <Scott at affsys.com> wrote:
>
> That appears to be an "if, else if, else" statement with different
> words...and a seemingly unnecessary outer block (the choose).
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   osflash-bounces at osflash.org on behalf of Dan Shryock
> Sent:   Thu 2/16/2006 11:01 AM
> To:     Open Source Flash Mailing List
> Cc:
> Subject:        Re: [osflash] switch - case
>
> IMHO it is an abuse simply because the syntax isn't necessarily obvious
> for
> someone who expects a case inside of a switch to match the param to the
> switch.  Maybe we should all start lobbying the major c based languages to
> support a syntax like this ;)
>
> choose{
>    when(bla){
>       //...
>    }
>    when(bla2){
>       //...
>    }
>    otherwise{
>       //...
>    }
> }
>
> Dan
>
> On 2/16/06, Evan <evan at tenpoundsound.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm confused about you think that's an abuse of switch? That's a valid
> use
> > that's been used for YEARS in C programming, it's nothing new.
> >
> > -Evan
> >
> > On 2/15/06, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Feb 15, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Jos Yule wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ralf Bokelberg wrote:
> > > >> You can do it like this
> > > >>
> > > >> switch( true){
> > > >>      case (model instanceof DivideSentenceStep1):
> > > >>               //...
> > > >>      case (model instanceof DivideSentenceStep2):
> > > >>               //...
> > > >>      default:
> > > >>               //...
> > > >> }
> > > >
> > > > That is very clever.
> > >
> > > Why the heck would you want to abuse switch like that?
> > >
> > > if (mode instanceof ...) {
> > >         // ...
> > > } else if (mode instanceof ...) {
> > >         // ...
> > > } else if (mode instanceof ...) {
> > >         // ...
> > > } else {
> > >         // ...
> > > }
> > >
> > > -bob
> > >
> > >
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