Proposed Enhancement to select/case (yes, I know...)

[Karl Heuer]

In article <1420 at lupine.NCD.COM> rfg at NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes:
>Regarding "case lists", it seems clear that a simple syntax, i.e.:
>	case FOO,BAR:
>won't work because the separator comma could be parsed as the normal comma
>operator, which would mess up everything.

It would mean that, in the unlikely event that the user *wants* a comma
operator in a case label, he has to parenthesize the expression.  No different
from the existing situation with function arguments or initializer lists,
except that it's a minor incompatibility with the existing language.

>Right.  Given that this feature has already been in g++ for some time,
>you may consider it "prior art".

Is there any particular reason this got added to g++ but not gcc?  It would
seem to be equally useful in both.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl at kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint