Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [snip] > > > Andrei
Well, "goto case" and "goto case XXX" both already exist. Both get the job done. So, regardless of which would be better for fallthrough, we can choose to use whichever we want in our code. As it stands, it becomes a matter of preference. I'd love something like "continue switch" or "fallthrough" to indicate explicit fallthrough, but it isn't at all necessary, so it's not worth trying to get Walter to add anything like that. At this point, if Walter makes it so that case blocks must end with a flow control statement of some kind, we're free to use either "goto case" or "goto case XXX" for fallthrough, so unless "goto case" is so bad that we should try to get Walter to get rid of it, I don't think that it's really an issue. We can use whichever one we want and not worry about it. The language is complete enough to require case statements to end with a control statement without losing any flexibility, so I think that we can agree to disagree on which statement is better and/or clearer and try and get Walter to add the compiler error for naked fallthrough. - Jonathan M Davis
