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Re:The death of if/else cascades, a lightweight alternative by domnit on Sunday December 06, 2009 @10:59AM (#979683)
Schematic tables [http://subtextual.org/OOPSLA07.pdf] are an extension of this idea that can handle arbitrarily complex conditionals. Unfortunately, they only work in Subtext [http://subtextual.org/], an unreleased research language. Schematic tables take advantage of the 2-dimensional visual layout of Subtext (as opposed to linear text, like most languages); it would be very interesting to see something similar in text.

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