SymbolicC`CSwitch basically broken?

Question

The CSwitch manual page gives the example

CSwitch["val", 1, CAssign["i", 10], CBreak[], 2, CAssign["i", 3], 
  CBreak[]] // ToCCodeString

which generates this illegitimate C code:

switch ( val)
{
case 1:
i = 10;

case break;:
2;

case i = 3:
break;
}

And I cannot even get it to produce just the first case, i.e.

switch ( val)
{
case 1:
i = 10;
break;
}

I tried removing the rest from the first example,

CSwitch["val", 1, CAssign["i", 10], CBreak[]] // ToCCodeString

but this gives

ToCCodeString::unk: An unknown element, CSwitch[val,1,CAssign[i,10],CBreak[]], was found when generating code >>

CUnknownElement[CSwitch[val, 1, CAssign[i, 10], CBreak[]]]

and

CSwitch["val", 1, {CAssign["i", 10], CBreak[]}] // ToCCodeString

generates the right code but again gives a message.

Also, the syntax-highlighting for CSwitch should probably tolerate any amount of arguments.

Is there something wrong with my setup or can somebody confirm this?

This is 10.4.

Answer 1

The documentation for CSwitch looks like it was written by somebody who didn't understand what the SymbolicC package or, for that matter, what a C switch is supposed to do. The following produces something more like C code and makes more sense as Mathematica code.

Needs["SymbolicC`"]
CSwitch["val",
  1, {CAssign["i", 10], CBreak[]},
  2, {CAssign["i", 3], CBreak[]}] // ToCCodeString

Still I would say that the SymbolicC package is very much a work in progress.