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  22 <p class="p1"><b>switch</b></p>
  23 <p class="p2"><br></p>
  24 <p class="p3">object.switch( test1, trueFunc1, test2, trueFunc2 ... testN, trueFuncN, defaultFunc )</p>
  25 <p class="p2"><br></p>
  26 <p class="p4">(</p>
  27 <p class="p2"><br></p>
  28 <p class="p4">a = 4.switch(</p>
  29 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span">     </span>0, { <span class="s1">"was 0"</span> },</p>
  30 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span">     </span>1, { <span class="s1">"was 1"</span> },</p>
  31 <p class="p5"><span class="s2"><span class="Apple-tab-span">    </span></span>// test cases are evaluated</p>
  32 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span">     </span>{ 1 + 1 }, { <span class="s1">"was 2"</span> },</p>
  33 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span">     </span>4, { <span class="s1">"was 4"</span> },</p>
  34 <p class="p6"><span class="s2"><span class="Apple-tab-span">    </span>4, { </span>"flow has stopped, we don't get here unlike traditional switch implementations"<span class="s2"> },</span></p>
  35 <p class="p5"><span class="s2"><span class="Apple-tab-span">    </span></span>// last function is the default</p>
  36 <p class="p6"><span class="s2"><span class="Apple-tab-span">    </span>{ </span>"if the answer wasn't four we would have ended up here, the default"<span class="s2"> }</span></p>
  37 <p class="p4">);</p>
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  39 <p class="p4">a</p>
  40 <p class="p2"><br></p>
  41 <p class="p4">)</p>
  42 <p class="p2"><br></p>
  43 <p class="p3">switch returns the result of the trueFunc</p>
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