It has always seemed odd to me that `case`s use a colon as a delimiter rather
than curly braces like everything else. Is there a reason for this other than
the legacy of C-like languages?
If I wanted to write a series of branching `if` \ `else` statements I would do
it like so:
if x==0 { print(0) }
else if x==1 { print (1) }
else if x==2 { print(2) }
else { print("other”) }
I believe all flow control is wrapped in curly braces, except for `case`s
inside a `switch`:
switch x {
case 0: print(0)
case 1: print(1)
case 2: print(2)
default: print("other")
}
I feel like this would be more consistent with the rest of the syntax:
switch x {
case 0 { print(0) }
case 1 { print(1) }
case 2 { print(2) }
default { print("other”) }
}
The colon syntax evokes a label, but the modern, complex `case` statements in
Swift don’t act much like labels.
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