Comment on proportional reaction
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 20 hours agoSwitch is good if you only need to compare equals when selecting a value.
Although some languages make it way more powerful, like python match
.
but I generally dislike python despite of this, and I generally dislike switch
because the syntax and formatting is just too unlike the rest of the languages.
Generally I prefer the clear brevity of:
var foo= x>100 ? bar : x>50 ? baz : x>10 ? qux : quxx;
Over
var foo; if(x>100) { foo=bar; } else if(x>50) { foo=baz; } else if(x>10) { foo=qux; } else { foo=quxx }
Which doesn’t really get any better if you remove the optional (but recommended) braces.
Heck, I even prefer ternary over some variations of switch
for equals conditionals, like the one in Java:
var foo; switch(x) { case 100: foo=bar; break; case 50: foo=baz; break; case 10: foo=qux; break; default: foo=quxx; }
But some languages do switch
better than others (like python as previously mentioned), so there are certainly cases where that’d probably be preferable even to me.