> On Apr 19, 2018, at 4:44 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com> wrote: > > We've been reviewing the work to date on switch expressions. Here's where we > are, and here's a possible place we might move to, which I like a lot better > than where we are now. > . . . > ## Closing the gap > > So, let's take one more step towards unifying the two forms (call this UA2), > rather than a step away from it. Let's say that _all_ switches can support > either old-style (colon) or new-style (arrow) case labels -- but must stick > to one kind of case label in a given switch . . . > > The result is one switch construct, with modern and legacy flavors, which > supports either expressions or statements. You can immediately look at the > middle of a switch and tell (by arrow vs colon) whether it has the legacy > control flow or not.
I like it. I would like to think that an IDE could help you with changing between colon and arrow flavors. —Guy
