Oh man, I love when I do a little further research and find out that the thing I'm talking about has a huge debate associated with it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallthrough_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
So it may be the case that your suggested syntax adds extra reinforcement for fall-through to be avoided as an intentional design practice.
You beat me to my own argument 😉
That said, I myself have also used fall-through statements on rare occasions.
That that said (is that a thing?), scoping each case using {} doesn't prevent you from falling through case statements anyways.
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Oh man, I love when I do a little further research and find out that the thing I'm talking about has a huge debate associated with it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallthrough_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
So it may be the case that your suggested syntax adds extra reinforcement for fall-through to be avoided as an intentional design practice.
You beat me to my own argument 😉
That said, I myself have also used fall-through statements on rare occasions.
That that said (is that a thing?), scoping each case using
{}doesn't prevent you from falling through case statements anyways.