Hi everyone
Thanks for all of your replies, and also thanks a lot for your time discussing
this topic with me.
Also especially thanks to Robert to explain the meaning of "default" in switch
statement. Now I can agree keeping using "default" keyword in switch statement.
Sorry to bother you all wi
> On Dec 6, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Robert Widmann via swift-evolution
> wrote:
>
> Perhaps you're thinking about this choice of syntax from a different angle
> than was intended. `default` is not literally meant to be a "default value"
> or, in most cases, "the default case", rather a "default pa
Perhaps you're thinking about this choice of syntax from a different angle than
was intended. `default` is not literally meant to be a "default value" or, in
most cases, "the default case", rather a "default pattern"; a place for control
to flow given no other option. Some other languages, esp
> On Dec 6, 2016, at 9:51 AM, Jeremy Pereira via swift-evolution
> wrote:
>
> Plus, I little while ago, I came across a situation where the code would have
> read marginally better if I had been able to put the default case at the top
> of the switch (illegal in Swift 3) with the other cases
> On 6 Dec 2016, at 04:11, 星野恵瑠 via swift-evolution
> wrote:
>
> p.s.
>
> I've read this mail and totally understand that Swift is designed to be
> familiar with C family languages, which "default" is widely used.
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md
Di
p.s.
I've read this mail and totally understand that Swift is designed to be
familiar with C family languages, which "default" is widely used.
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md
But since Swift 3.0 has already make many source breaking changes and supports
Many languages have a switch statement and most (maybe all?) of them use
"default" keyword for the condition which doesn't match any of those listed in
the switch statement.
But sometimes that condition is just an exception, which literally IS NOT a
default condition.
So how about using other
