The "break" proposed is more similar to prolog's "cut" used when rules are 'or'ed together, to stop alternative branches being evaluated.
Mark On 24/07/2012 09:24, Wolfgang Laun wrote: > The switch statement as we see it in C and Java is due to the classic > "multiway branch" based on a (single) discrete value. As K&R note (in > their book), "falling through" has an advantage: it permits more than > one case label in front of code to be executed alike for all values. > The disadvantage is the necessity of using "break" at the end of such > a statement sequence. > > Other languages (Pascal, Modula, Ada,...) permit lists and ranges in > case labels: hence there is no necessity for "break", and case > branches are distinct alternatives. > > If the "switch" in the current proposal for Drools 6.0 has no (or no > useful) interpretation of "falling through", then "break" should not > be necessary. > > -W > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > rules-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev
