[jcromartie]

I think switch is a particularly bad example here. Honestly, I can't (accurately) tell you the last time I used one. It's not an every-day construct for a lot of people.

[eru]

Neither Python nor Haskell have it - as far as I know. Perhaps you can create one out of monads though.

[lsb]

Actually, case is built into Haskell: it's the evaluation primitive in Haskell Core; see Don Stewart's blog post http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2008/05/16 .

[eru]

Yes, there it is. Sorry, I did not research my claim.

Actually pattern matching can also be described as something like a case-switch.