Switch statement for George?

[Jeremy Richard]

Is there an equivalent to a php switch statement in George?

So instead of this:

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IF colour_choice == 1 || colour_choice == 2 || colour_choice == 3
	...
END

We could do:

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SWITCH (colour_choice) {
    CASE 1
        ...
        BREAK
    CASE 2
        ...
        BREAK
    CASE 3
        ...
        BREAK
}

or:

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SWITCH (colour_choice) {
    CASE 1
        ...
        BREAK
    CASE 2
    CASE 3
        ...
        BREAK
}

[aAntin]

That would be very convenient to avoid the nested IF-ELSE hell, indeed!!

My two cents: using CMP algorithm would be nice to include strings instead of double-equal operator algorithm.

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SWITCH my_string
    CASE "a"
        // ...
        BREAK
    CASE "b"
        // ...
        BREAK
    CASE "c"
        // ...
        BREAK
    DEFAULT
        // ...
        BREAK
END

instead of:

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IF CMP(my_string, "a")
    // ...
ELSE
    IF CMP(my_string, "b")
        // ...
    ELSE
        IF CMP(my_string, "c")
            // ...
        ELSE
            // Default stuff...
        END
    END
END

Thank you!