I thought it might be too convenient. Treating continue in a switch statement like a continue in a nested loop (the inner loop/switch is 'continued', without effecting the outer loop) would probably break a lot of things.
"Nelson, Jim" <[email protected]> wrote: >continue can be used when a switch statement is embedded inside a loop. > >-- Jim > >On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Sam Wilson <[email protected]> >wrote: >Why not something like continue? > >"Nelson, Jim" <[email protected]> wrote: >Apparently this is possible in C# with the "goto case <label>" syntax: > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/174155/switch-statement-fallthrough-in-c > >Doesn't work in Vala, however. > >I'm not advocating for switch-case fallthrough, but C# was able to >provide it without reserving another keyword. > >-- Jim > >On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen ><[email protected]> wrote: >Hello. > >I am new to this list. Please let me know if I post in the wrong place. > > >A long time ago I tried case fallthrough in Vala. >It didn't work as in C, so I wrote that special code in C and the rest >in >Vala. > >In stead of forbidding case fallthrough all together, I believe a good >compromise would be to implement a new keyword, nobreak, solely for >this >purpose. > >Any ideas? > > >vala-list mailing list >[email protected] >https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
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