Re: Pronouns in programming language?

John Fremlin wrote:


> Has any programming language/compiler implemented pronoun like
> constructs? For example:
>
> if variable_with_long_name == '2 ,
> { do this; }
> if it == '3 , # equivalent to: variable_with_long_name == '3
> { do that }
>


Apart from a nice theoretical discussion. Why does anybody need it? (Or why
does anybody need pronouns?). In your example there is an elegant
construction that answers that question: switch.


switch (variable_with_long_name)
      case 2: do_this; break;
      case 3: do_that;

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