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    From fir@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 25 12:53:21 2024
    by freeform i thought something like
    totally separate the function of switch and
    teh function of case amd understand
    it sepratelley

    swich(a) menas something like select a (for later comparsions)
    (though its not clear if it should select value or select
    variable at this moment)

    case(4) means coempare selected tith argument and
    work like if


    do

    int a = rand()%10;

    switch(a);
    case(1) {}
    case(2) {}
    case(3) {}
    case(4) {}
    case(5) {}

    is understood

    but the question is the details, like mentioned
    if select by value or by variable

    switch(a);
    case(1) {a++;}
    case(2) {}
    a--;
    case(3) {a+=6;}
    case(4) {}
    case(5) {}

    as it will work different then

    such free form is somewhat low lewel than the normal
    switch case imo..it also has no break but what it could
    be seem if swich selects by value then probably break
    is not needed as the other cases could be optimised
    away (though maybe not fully..) if switch is by variable
    then maybe less

    overally this switch is a mess but it seem to me that this kind
    of free form is better that the swich in c (though im not fully sure also)

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  • From fir@21:1/5 to fir on Sun Aug 25 13:21:24 2024
    fir wrote:


    by freeform i thought something like
    totally separate the function of switch and
    teh function of case amd understand
    it sepratelley

    swich(a) menas something like select a (for later comparsions)
    (though its not clear if it should select value or select
    variable at this moment)

    case(4) means coempare selected tith argument and
    work like if


    do

    int a = rand()%10;

    switch(a);
    case(1) {}
    case(2) {}
    case(3) {}
    case(4) {}
    case(5) {}

    is understood

    but the question is the details, like mentioned
    if select by value or by variable

    switch(a);
    case(1) {a++;}
    case(2) {}
    a--;
    case(3) {a+=6;}
    case(4) {}
    case(5) {}

    as it will work different then

    such free form is somewhat low lewel than the normal
    switch case imo..it also has no break but what it could
    be seem if swich selects by value then probably break
    is not needed as the other cases could be optimised
    away (though maybe not fully..) if switch is by variable
    then maybe less

    overally this switch is a mess but it seem to me that this kind
    of free form is better that the swich in c (though im not fully sure also)

    yet one thing comes to mind as this switch /select (for smoe
    reason select could be maybe a better word) could also work in
    more ways than select variable and select value

    it could also work like select value to watch in runtime, or select
    value to watch at acces - and it could be eventually good for
    debig purposes like

    int x = 20;

    select4ac(x); //select for acces controll

    case(<0) ERROR("");
    case(x>639) ERROR("");
    //throws errors if x would be set below 0 or above 639



    it would burden the cpu dependant on use but its kinda interesting
    languege mechanism imo

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