In our previous episode, Ryan Joseph said: > > > > I think it is important to differentiate between a language feature > > and its common implementation. Perhaps case statements with variables > > make sense? Of course, that doesn't mean anyone is going to add them. > > I?ve been programming Pascal since about 1995 and I never knew cases were > an optimization or had any special meaning. In my mind I thought they > were just a nice way to do branching when there were lots of cases to > check (hence the ?case statement?).
It is just like a for loop is not exactly like a naieve while loop because the bounds are only evaluated once. Some details you only acquire as very experienced programmer, or implementator. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
