Case Statements
Question: What are the advatages and disadvantages of case statement in pseudocode?
anonymous
Answer: There are no disadvantages.
The main advantage is that it translates directly into code in the 90%+ of languages that have some sort of case statement built in.
eg the following might be what you end up with in Javascript if you use a case statement in your pseudocode (if you use if statements you end up with far less efficient code):
switch(finished) {
case 1: alert('first'); break;
case 2: alert('second'); break;
case 3: alert('third'); break;
default: alert('did not place');
}
case 1: alert('first'); break;
case 2: alert('second'); break;
case 3: alert('third'); break;
default: alert('did not place');
}
