> On Dec 6, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Robert Widmann via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]> 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 pattern"; a place
> for control to flow given no other option. Some other languages, especially
> those that emphasize patterns, syntaxize words like "otherwise" or simply use
> "_", but I've not seen languages that mix C-style switch-case keywords with
> C-style branching keywords before.
"Case Else" is common in Pascal-lineage syntaxes. (Shameless plug) We also used
'else' for the default block signifier in Clay, since we adopted block syntax
for cases instead of label-style cases as in C, e.g. 'switch (x) case (1) { ...
} else { ... }'.
-Joe
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