🚀 go-pugleaf

Dear list,

There's a certain resemblance of the CASE construction in C, and
SELECT in REXX.
Both can be compared to multiple-choice IFs.  That is, SELECT is a
straightforward construction of sequential "IF..THEN..ELSE.."
statements.

CASE however is NOT, unless each & every case has its own BREAK.
The nice thing about CASE is that when a case is true, expressions
following it will be processed up to AND INCLUDING the next case (or
BREAK, whichever comes first).
Thus one can (as it were) "preprocess" statements relevant to a
number of cases, and then "fall through" to test for relevant
differences without needing to (effectively) duplicate code (once or
even more times).  It also removes the need for a subroutine, which
would normally be the thing to do.

Question:
What are the pros and cons in re inclusion of CASE in the SELECT
statement (as "fall-through" alternative to WHEN)?


Regards.
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