On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 8:42 PM David Koblas <da...@koblas.com> wrote:
> IMHO I've wanted a switch expression, rather than a switch statement for a
> while.
>
I've wanted that too, but what we already have really isn't that bad.
> value := switch test {
> case true => "red"
> case false => "blue"
> }
>
> value := "blue"
if test {
value = "red"
}
> value := switch item.(type) {
> case int => item
> case string => strconv.Atoi(item)
> case time.Time => {
> ... something more involved ... returning an int
> }
> }
>
> Note that the above won't work; you must have a default case as well, for
almost any switch expression.
value := 0
switch v := item.(type) {
case int:
value = v
case string:
value = strconv.Atoi(v)
case time.Time:
...
}
> Sure, not as compact as ternary -- but far more powerful and useful.
> On 4/24/19 9:40 PM, Michael Jones wrote:
>
> switch test {
> case true:
> //..code block for test=true
> case false:
> //..code block for test=false
> }
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 4:42 PM Dan Kortschak <d...@kortschak.io> wrote:
>
>> How would you preclude it?
>>
>> On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 16:28 -0700, lgod...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > I am NOT in favor of allowing nested ternary operations
>>
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