I find it odd that no language seems to have a syntax short-cut (like operators) for something as common as switches; the closest thing might be a shell script!

I find it odd that no language seems to have a syntax short-cut (like operators) for something as common as switches; the closest thing might be a shell script! This is a very common thing to write. Why couldn’t a switch avoid all keywords and look more like a list...such as: ?(value): - 0: { doThing(); } - 1: { otherThing(); } - *: { doDefault(); }