'switch' operator improvement

[David Teller]

Pattern-matching with views [1,2], anyone ?

Cheers,
 David

[1] http://martin.jambon.free.fr/micmatch-manual.html#htoc10
[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2006/08/16/ActivePatterns.aspx

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 20:11 +0200, liorean wrote:
> 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.
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