Two New Features

[amckinlay]

I recently added a couple of small features to the language.

Concatenation in string constants

#(“a long string ………..” $
“………… some more”)

This is primarily cosmetic – code with long strings can be formatted nicer.

The concatenation is done at compile time.

Default value for switch statement

switch { … } is equivalent to switch (true) { … }

This is useful when you put expressions in the cases:

switch { case x < 5 : ... You can, of course, do the equivalent with a series of if-else but sometimes the switch format is clearer. These changes are in version control. I’ll post a new release at some point.

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