Number ranges in switch

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Number ranges in switch #130

Open KOLANICH opened 7 years ago

KOLANICH commented 7 years ago

Sometimes you need to perform the same action for a range of numbers. for example

0000 : reserved 0001 : 192 samples 0010-0101 : 576 (2^(n-2)) samples, i.e. 576/1152/2304/4608 0110 : get 8 bit (blocksize-1) from end of header 0111 : get 16 bit (blocksize-1) from end of header 1000-1111 : 256 (2^(n-8)) samples, i.e. 256/512/1024/2048/4096/8192/16384/32768

so I propose to allow number ranges in switch.

GreyCat commented 7 years ago

Possible, but pretty bothersome from implementation POV. One needs to:

introduce a new data type - "range"; think of what can be ranged (integers?) and what not (strings? floats? booleans?)
introduce parsing in expression language for it (and think of some good syntax)
do lot of tests and implementations of this stuff in various target languages

Help would be appreciated.