Day 3 - Switch statement and integers question – 100 Days of Swift

Day 3 - Switch statement and integers question

@Woodde

Sep '20

I tried making this switch statement:

let test = 1

switch test {
case ...1 : 
  print("one")
case 2... :
  print("two")
}

I was playing with open ranges, didn't know what was legal, but apparently the above is.

Even though the code is exhaustive for integers, I had to enter a default case. Is there any case with integers (not a subset) where swift would recognize the code as exhaustive? Or will you need to enter a default case no matter what?

@Woodde

Sep '20

Just realized how stupid I was. I was miffed that Swift forced me to add a default case that would never be called. Instead I should just change ...

case 2... :

default:

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