What would be the proposed syntax for cases with associated values? In general, +1 for simplifying the syntax, but I'm not sure it'd work well, given that enums take on a larger roll in Swift than they do in other languages. Or maybe it'd be fine... I'm just too tired to picture it in my head.
- Dave Sweeris > On Jul 7, 2016, at 15:07, G B via swift-evolution <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
