Alexander Klenin schrieb: >> Can anyone say why there is no string case statement in Object Pascal? I've >> always wondered about this as sometimes it hard to avoid 10-20 If..then..else >> if.... statements. > > I'd say it is because nobody contributed it ;-)
There exist too many options with string comparison. In a table lookup the compare method can be supplied by the application, in a case statement this would require another syntax extension. DoDi _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
