Re: Thirteen Scripters Scripting
Re: Thirteen Scripters Scripting
- Subject: Re: Thirteen Scripters Scripting
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:52:45 -0500
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:40 AM, David Marshall <email@hidden> wrote:
> Speaking of C, I do wish AppleScript included a "switch"
> statement and a "case" label:
>
> switch (i) {
> case 12: printf ("twelve drummers drumming,\n");
> case 11: printf ("eleven pipers piping,\n");
> case 10: printf ("ten lords a-leaping,\n");
> case 9: printf ("nine ladies dancing,\n");
> case 8: printf ("eight maids a-milking,\n");
> case 7: printf ("seven swans a-swimming,\n");
> case 6: printf ("six geese a-laying,\n");
> case 5: printf ("five golden rings,\n");
> case 4: printf ("four calling birds,\n");
> case 3: printf ("three French hens,\n");
> case 2: printf ("two turtle doves, and \n");
> case 1: printf ("a partridge in a pear tree.\n"); break;
> }
>
> I like the elegant simplicitly of building a list of n items by "falling
> through" to the nth-1 item.
Somehow I don't think the elegance of solutions like this makes up for
all the hard-to-find bugs caused by missing "break" statements over
the years. :)
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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