kotlin 'when' conditional operator equivalent in dart

[karthickr95]

Need a kotlin like 'when' conditional operator.

Need a optional break statement and when like concise syntax, because it is less boilerplate and like a modern language. And a when or switch expression statement.

[lrhn]

The Kotlin when statement is similar to a switch statement, but with more powerful patterns:

when (e) {
  (computedExpression) -> /* equality test with non-constant value */
  99, 100, 101 -> /* multiple patterns */
  in 10..25 -> /*range pattern */
  !in 10..20 -> /* not in range */
  is String -> /* type match */
  !is String -> /* negative type match */
  x.isEven -> /* boolean test */
}

It has implicit break between cases (no fallthrough), and allows a variable declaration in the switch expression:

when (var x = something) {
  is String -> print(x) 
  else -> print("$x")
}

which is in scope in the rest of the when.

A when can occur as an expression, in which case it likely requires an else branch. The value of the when is the value of the last expression in the chosen branch.

[djensen47]

It would also be great to make the result of the when clause assignable to a variable, return, etc.

[mit-mit]

Moving to the /langauge repo, which is the main tracker for language evolution

[rodrigost23]

Isn't this a duplicate of #27?

[mit-mit]

Yes, that appears to be the case, @munificent ?

(Part of the reason for moving was to ensure things weren't duplicated, so thanks for the headsup @rodrigost23 )

[munificent]

It's always hard to decide which language issues are duplicates. If the request is just some kind of multi-way branching expression, then, yeah. But if @karthickr95 is specifically requesting syntax very close to Kotlin's then maybe not. In this case, though, I think it's similar enough to close as a duplicate.