<div dir="ltr">Sounds like the team/community has already shown that similarity with C isn't a priority that overrides clarity/simplicity in the language. Thus, +1<div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div class="h5"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 9, 2015, at 3:01 PM, Mustafa Yusuf via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div>Hello all. In switch statements in swift if all the possible cases aren't covered we have to supply a default case.<br></div><div><br></div><div> let number = 10<br></div><div><br></div><div> switch number {<br></div><div> case 10: print("yay")<br></div><div> case 12: print("close")<br></div><div> default: print("try again")</div><div> }<br></div><div><br></div><div>My proposal is replace it with the "case _:".<br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"> let number = 10<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"> switch number {<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"> case 10: print("yay")<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"> case 12: print("close")<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"> case _: print("try again")<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"> }<br></div><div><br></div><div>Since underscore in swift means "whatever I don't care" it suits here better than "default". Correct me If I am wrong but this is the only use for "default" keyword in swift I guess. So we can completely remove "default" keyword from the language.<br></div></div>
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</div></div></blockquote><br></div></div></div><div>FWIW, this is already supported. We *also* support default for clarity of code / because it reads better, and for similarly with the (extended) C family of languages.</div><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div><br>
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