On 3/6/2011 1:11 PM, bearophile wrote:
Do you know why final switches disallow case ranges? Case ranges are not bug-prone:void main() { ubyte u; final switch (u) { case 0: .. case 100: break; case 101: .. case 255: break; } }
Final switch is really just meant to be used with enums; since enumeration values don't have to cover the whole range of possible base type values, and enumeration values don't often have a natural ordering, ranges make little sense there.