[swift-evolution] Modernize Switch/Case Statements?

[Craig Cruden]

Replacing a “:” with a set of curly brackets for each case would quickly clutter up the statement and make it look really ugly IMHO.

If the problem is that the expression is being lost because the symbol “:” does not stand out…. then simple formatting tends to solve that (i.e. if it is multiple lines then “:” on one line and the code on the next.  


> On 2016-01-28, at 8:43:25, Ilya Belenkiy via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> +1
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 8:39 PM Joseph Essin via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
> As a budding iOS developer, I thought it might be nice if Swift were to further improve on C's switch statement by using curly brackets to denote a block instead of a colon. It seems like this would be more consistent with the language at large and make indention more intuitive.
> 
> Here's a quick example of what it might be.
> 
> switch value {
>   case expression {
>   }
> }
> 
> I apologize if this message isn't in the right format--I've not used a mailing list before.
> 
> Joseph Essin
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