Most languages have a version of the switch statement as far as I’m aware; I must admit, I don’t remember one from Spectrum Basic, but ever since then, I don’t think I’ve come across a language that doesn’t have one. The switch statement in C was interesting. For example, the following was totally valid:
switch (value)
{
case 1:
printf("hello ");
case 2:
printf("world");
}If you gave it a value of 1, it would print “hello world.” When C# came out, they insisted on using breaks at the end of case statements, or having no code (admittedly there were a few bugs in C caused by accidentally leaving break statements out):
Most languages have a version of the switch statement as far as I’m aware; I must admit, I don’t remember one from Spectrum Basic, but ever since then, I don’t think I’ve come across a language that doesn’t have one. The switch statement in C was interesting. For example, the following was totally valid:
switch (value)
{
case 1:
printf(“hello “);
case 2:
printf(“world”);
}
If you gave it a value of 1, it would print “hello world.” When C# came out, they insisted on using breaks at the end of case statements, or having no code (admittedly there were a few bugs in C caused by accidentally leaving break statements out): […]