Re: The meaning of 'sugar' [Forked from Re: Why do we have ipairs?]

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Granted, your point about not having symbolic constants degrading the quality of code is true... however, this problem already exists for if-else statements as well [...]

Is the "perfomance degradation" of using names (variables) instead of
constants in an if-chain similar to what it does in your switch statement?
(You may try it with different kinds of variables.)

-- Roberto