`case` returning strings

[cjbarre]

case returning strings

	Commit	Date	Change
Last working	7b29eef2a	July 22, 2026
First broken	12637c9e0	July 25, 2026	Switch to native literals by default

case_string.jank:

(ns case-string)

(defn choose [x]
  (case x :a "A" :b "B" "default"))

(defn -main [& _]
  (assert (= ["A" "B" "default"] (mapv choose [:a :b :other])))
  (println :pass))

	Commit	Result
Before	7b29eef2a	run-main and the compiled executable print :pass and exit 0.
After	12637c9e0	run-main and compile exit 1: error: no viable overloaded '='.

The generated code tries to assign a C++ string pointer to a jank object reference.

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