[fpc-pascal] Case statements without constants?

[Sven Barth]

Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com> schrieb am Mo., 29. Okt. 2018,
10:41:

> I tried today to make a case that used variables instead of constants and
> was surprised to get an error. I’m sure this been true since the 80’s but
> why don’t cases allow variables??? I thought a case statement was just a
> group of if..else blocks in succession.
>

No it's not. At least for ordinal values it's usually implemented as a jump
table or something optimized like that which would not work with variables
as labels.

Regards,
Sven

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