'switch' operator improvement

[liorean]

On 16/10/2007, Peter Hall <peter.hall at memorphic.com> wrote:
> already you can do something like this:
>
> var str;
> switch(true){
> case /a/.test(str):
>   alert('a');
>   break;
> case /b/.test(str):
>   alert('b');
>   break;
> }

I can only imagine that solution being preferable to chained
if..else-statements in one case, and that would be if you actually
used the fall through mechanism. If you don't fall through, it's just
bloat without any gain.
-- 
David "liorean" Andersson