can.route handling specific routes

If I had a simple route definition and controller as below, none of the specific route handlers get called (e.g. 'foo/:view' if type=foo).  Only the ':type/:view' route is fired.  I want to avoid having a giant switch statement to handle a route and rather have a set of explicit callbacks for specific routes.  The question is, is this possible with can.route?

I have also tried defining specific routes like can.route("foo/:view", {type="foo"}) but that doesn't work.  The routing system treats the foo/ prefix as just text and doesn't understand that it is actually the type, so if you are on the #!bar/blah route want to invoke a different route later with can.route.attr({type:"foo", view:"something"}, true), you get #!bar/something?type=foo, which is not what I want.

1. can.route(":type/:view");
   var App = can.Control({
           'auth/:view route': function(data) {
               // default actions on index page (logon page)
               switch(data.view) {
                   case 'logon':
                       ('#pagecontent').html("auth/" + data.view);
                       break;
               }
           },
           'foo/:view route': function (data) {
               $('#pagecontent').html("foo/" + data.view);
           },
           'bar/:view route': function (data) {
               switch(data.view) {
                   case 'first':
                       $('#pagecontent').html("bar/" + data.view);
                       break;
                   case 'second':
                       $('#pagecontent').html("bar/" + data.view);
                       break;
                   default:
                       $('#pagecontent').html("Unknown route: bar/" + data.view);
                       break;
               }
           },
           ':type/:view route': function(data) {
               $('#pagecontent').html("Generic route fired");
           }
       });
      
       // you have to wait until document ready to wire up the routes, otherwise you get undefined reading the attributes.  This is supposed to work per the forums
       can.route.ready(false);
      
       // logging route listener
       can.route.bind("change", function(ev, attr, how, newVal, oldVal) {
           console.log("Route update: ", attr, how, oldVal, " => ", newVal);
       });
      
       new App( document );    // create the application + routing controller
       can.route.ready(true);