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Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh@gmail.com> changed:

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Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> changed:

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Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> changed:

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Nick Treleaven <nick@geany.org> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Nick Treleaven <nick@geany.org> ---
(In reply to Andrej Mitrovic from comment #1)
> And it also limits the number of cases to 256 (for optimization purposes?).
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> So a final switch would only work on byte-types.

See issue 15279 which seems to be an implementation issue rather than a design decision (the pull comment suggests lowering case range statements to an if/else instead).

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