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0 pointsenedil6y ago0 comments

That's an odd example, but you can do it in OCaml:

match (a, b) with | (1, 1) -> 1 | (1, 0) -> (fix b); 1 | _ -> 0

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In C:

switch (!!a) & ((!!b) < 1) { case 3: return 1; case 1: fix_b(); return 1; default: return 0; }

If you rewrite 3 as “A & B”, this turns into feature flags, and is less crazy looking (not sure arithmetic is allowed in case statements though).

Better (regardless of language) is flow like this:

if (!b) fix_b(); return a && b;

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