Optional Parameters in LCB

[PaulDaMacMan]

I'm working on an LCB Library and I want to have a function that returns something even if no parameter is passed (or something else is the correct switch keyword is passed)

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handler getMyThing(pSwitchForOtherThing) -- no type so it should be optional any even nothing 
     if pSwitchForOtherThing = "other thing" then
         return "bar"
    else
         return "foo"
    end if
end handler

so that if I call getMyThing() I get "foo" back
but if I call call getMyThing("other thing") I get "bar" back

but this doesn't compile, errors that there aren't enough parameters.

Also if I want to have a param and an optional second parameter, in LCS I still have to include a comma after the non-optional first parameter in my call, even if the second param isn't needed like so : getMyThing("other thing", empty )

Is this not possible yet or are these bugs, or just haven't been refined yet, or what?

Also can we please have CASE/SWITCH in LCB, Pretty Pleeease?

Thanks

[[-hh]]

Just some thoughts.

... if I want to have a param and an optional second parameter, in LCS I still have to include a comma after the non-optional first parameter in my call, even if the second param isn't needed like so : getMyThing("other thing", empty )

Simply use ONE list as param. This list may have 0,1,2,...,N elements.

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private handler anyThing(in pParam as List) returns optional any
    if mSwitchForOtherThing is "other thing" then
        return "bar"
    else if pParam is the empty list then
        return "foo"
    else
        return pParam[1] -- is 42
    end if
end handler

[Mikey]

Oh that's sexy.

[PaulDaMacMan]

That's an option, then I just have to coerce the elements of the list into the required types (integer, string or empty).
Thanks for the suggestion.