When using string based case in switch statement, Parser indicates that CaseStatement is invalid

[nazriel]

I'm attaching screenshot to visual the thing better.

I wasn't sure if I should post it here or in Mono-D project so here it is

[extrawurst]

well the switch statement is invalid: http://dlang.org/statement.html#string-switch
you are missing the case keyword but ok the error message could be better...

[aBothe]

this confused me a lot if switch-case-statements suddenly would not require 'case'-tokens anymore.
Thus, I follow @extrawurst's opinion - or does dmd allow such syntax?

[nazriel]

@extrawurst yeah, you are right.

Confusion came up because I wrongly thought that such construct is valid:

enum F : string {
A = "a"
...
}

F f;

with (F) switch (f)
{
A:
...
}

But now after thinking about it, these are just lexed as Labels in general.

So yeah, error report is invalid although it could be improvement request regarding error message itself