variable case ranges

1.5: adda/cstr/case/variable case ranges:
. if the cases can be variable expressions
how does that work? how useful is that?
it does seem to suit a parallel case,
which would entail this equivalence:
e? # a: ;;; # b: ;;; # c: ;;; #; <=>
eval'd in parallel:
{ e= a? (;;;)
, e= b? (;;;)
, e= c? (;;;)
}
. the general characteristic required for
a non-parallel case stmt
is that it select no more than one of the
alternative execution paths .
. one useful example of variable case ranges
is when the use of variables and simple arithmetic
still provide a partition of the codomain,
ie, none of the case ranges are overlapping;
eg,
here are examples of simply shifting
the location of the boundaries between
exec'path guard partitions:
reals from a..d can vary to effect the outcome
of the following case .
e ?
#[a...b): proc1;
#[b...c): proc2;
#[c...d]: proc3 #;
and likewise for these variable integer ranges:
{a..b}, {b+1..c}, {c+1..d} .
. another use of such arithmetic
would provide case-range restrictions,
so that a varying set of cases are going to
the {others, do-nothing} execution paths .