Allow a Refnum as a Case Selector

[paul_cardinale]

I do this a lot:

I'd rather do this:

[AristosQueue (NI)]

I would strongly oppose this change on the grounds that it would make the very dangerous "Not A Refnum?" test harder to find in an application. Here's my post on the subject:

https://lavag.org/topic/15546-are-you-misusing-the-not-a-refnum-function-and-putting-your-app-at-ris...

If you are writing code like what is shown above, I am very worried about your application's correctness. I would advise you to rewrite your application to avoid that pattern. See the post on LAVA for details.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

> "If you weren't supposed to push it, it wouldn't be a button." 

Untrue, as demonstrated by the existence of the "Not a refnum?" primitive. 🙂

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Also, this idea is a duplicate of this other idea:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Allow-References-to-be-Wired-into-Case-Selectors-to-C...

[Christina_R]

Duplicate of https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Allow-References-to-be-Wired-into-Case-Selectors-to-C...