Hi,
Offer Kaye wrote on 14.04.2005:
>On 4/14/05, Jan Eden wrote:
>>
>>In example 1, I have to set the variable explicitly 5 times, in
>>example 2, I have to manually list all cases outside the switch
>>statement, which bears the risk of forgetting to modify the line
>>once I extend the switch statement.
>>
>>So is there a better way to do it?
>>
>
>Why not use method #2 and use the @cases array for the actual case
>statements? E.g.: case ($cases[0]) { ...
>}
>
>Note- the parens around $cases[0] are not optional, since this method
>uses a variable as the first argument to "case".
That's a good idea. Thank you!
- Jan
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