switch

Control flow

Evaluates the discriminant once. break leaves the switch. No C fall-through; stacked cases share a body.

Syntax

switch (action) {
case "buy":
case "purchase":
    Grant(player);
    break;
default:
    warn("unknown");
    break;
}

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`action`	`any`	Compared with `==` to each case.

Return value

None.

Luau emit

repeat … until true wrapping if / elseif

Description

Emitted as if / elseif / else inside repeat … until true so break still leaves the switch. Stacked cases share the body. default is the fallback.

Example

switch (action) {
case "buy":
    Grant(player);
    break;
default:
    warn("unknown");
    break;
}

Emits:

-- discriminant evaluated once, then if/elseif inside repeat-until-true