Nope, you're not missing anything, that was exactly my point because that's all people are getting by using the switch statement in the way that they are.  The syntax that I suggested is actually the only way of doing that sort of logic in xsl and jstl (using xml format of course).

Dan

On 2/16/06, Scott Hyndman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That appears to be an "if, else if, else" statement with different words...and a seemingly unnecessary outer block (the choose).

Am I missing something?

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dan Shryock
Sent:   Thu 2/16/2006 11:01 AM
To:     Open Source Flash Mailing List
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Subject:        Re: [osflash] switch - case

IMHO it is an abuse simply because the syntax isn't necessarily obvious for
someone who expects a case inside of a switch to match the param to the
switch.  Maybe we should all start lobbying the major c based languages to
support a syntax like this ;)

choose{
   when(bla){
      //...
   }
   when(bla2){
      //...
   }
   otherwise{
      //...
   }
}

Dan

On 2/16/06, Evan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm confused about you think that's an abuse of switch? That's a valid use
> that's been used for YEARS in C programming, it's nothing new.
>
> -Evan
>
> On 2/15/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Feb 15, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Jos Yule wrote:
> >
> > > Ralf Bokelberg wrote:
> > >> You can do it like this
> > >>
> > >> switch( true){
> > >>      case (model instanceof DivideSentenceStep1):
> > >>               //...
> > >>      case (model instanceof DivideSentenceStep2):
> > >>               //...
> > >>      default:
> > >>               //...
> > >> }
> > >
> > > That is very clever.
> >
> > Why the heck would you want to abuse switch like that?
> >
> > if (mode instanceof ...) {
> >         // ...
> > } else if (mode instanceof ...) {
> >         // ...
> > } else if (mode instanceof ...) {
> >         // ...
> > } else {
> >         // ...
> > }
> >
> > -bob
> >
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