CheeseConQueso:

Primarily because it's a source filter: In other words, it rewrites your code before the parser can parse it. So it'll probably work perfectly nearly all of the time. But if it gets confused, the parser is going to report problems on the rewritten code, rather than the code you're working on. So the line numbers and/or descriptions of the errors may have little bearing on the source code you're working on. Additionally, if the module gets confused, it may alter code not related to any switches. This can be confusing, since you probably won't suspect Switch to be the cause of a problem where there are no switch statements near the reported problems.

...roboticus

In reply to Re^3: Nested Switch case by roboticus
in thread Nested Switch case by tej

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