From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-07-10T19:17:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Case expressions and LHS of assignment....

Hi,

In message "Re: Case expressions and LHS of assignment...."
    on 02/07/10, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:

|> Unlike Perl (nor C++), the evaluated result of case statement is the
|> "value", not the "reference".  And I feel this is a good thing.  Why not
|
|A good thing because it would lead to tangled code, "giving too much
|rope to for the programmer to hang themselves" etc, or some other
|reason?

Not allowing lhs as a result is good, because of the combination of
the following:

  * it's too hard to implement.
  * it's too abusable (too much rope to hang yourself).
  * it makes the language comprecated without helping it much.

							matz.