select {

_ case 1: // some code

_ case 2: // some code

_ case else: // some code

}

Now if you compare this to the If... Then structure we spent the last few weeks on, you'll... Yes, Mr. Einstein?"

"Can you give us your view on the implications of allowing the coder discretion in the case selection process?"

"Um, that's not quite what we mean by a 'case' here. See... Yes, Ms. Quinn?"

"I think what my colleague is trying to say is that there is a meta-, uhh, systemic question of, uhh, power relations in terms of, you know, who decides what is ACTUALLY the case? Obama? Microsoft? Comcast? A jury of brogrammer peers?"

"No, ma'am, see, the structure we're looking at today just elicits... Yes, Mrz. Smith?"

"I believe what Ms. Quinn is getting at is that, in legal realism and critical legal theory, the, uhh, spurious distinction between selecting a case for prosecution and making a determination of fact about that case is elided. And rightly, in many people's views. Will you be addressing any critical perspectives on conditional structures?"

"No, the... Yes, Mr. Einstein, again?"

"I think something that's often left out of these discussions is the supposedly content-free but obviously white male 'some code' commented out. The rationalist abstraction would have it that it doesn't matter what the code is, but doesn't this assumption just reinscribe white supremacist patriarchal domination?"

"..." *blows brains out*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2675191&forum_id=2#26336497)