What is the equivalent of switch case (or case expr of) in Slate?

[Brian Rice]

caseOf:otherwise: takes an Array of Associations between blocks, and a 
fail-over block if no case applies. We lifted it straight from 
Smalltalk-80. It also has a byte-compiler optimization.

On Apr 1, 2005, at 9:20 AM, Paul Dufresne wrote:

> In my SDL event looking code, I am doing:
>   SDL waitEvent: evt.
>   evt_type: evt TypeEvt.
>   evt_type == SDL KEYDOWN ifTrue: [et showKeyDown: evt ].
>   evt_type == SDL KEYUP   ifTrue: [et showKeyUp: evt ].
>   evt_type == SDL MOUSEBUTTONDOWN ifTrue: [et showClick: evt ].
>   evt_type == SDL MOUSEMOTION ifTrue: [et showMouseMove: evt ].
>   "I'd like to call showOther if it is none of the previous, but..."
>
> but I would have to make an if different than SDL KEYDOWN, and 
> different
> than SDL KEYUP and differnt than ...
>
> That seems to long.
> What would be a better way to do this?
> Hope this is not in the manual.
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