About switch case statements...

[Bill Baxter]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> Don wrote:
>>>
>>> And looking at how rarely it's actually used by someone who thinks he
>>> uses it a lot, convinces me that intentional use of fall-through is much
>>> less common than bugs introduced by leaving out a break statement.
>>
>> Except that I cannot recall ever having a bug from leaving out a break
>> <g>.
>
> I can. I'm not sure where that leaves us. Others - please add your
> experience.

I have without a doubt forgotten a "break".  Many times.  Last one was
probably just a week or two ago.  Of course now after years of C and
C++, I'm more attuned to it, so it didn't take that long to figure out
where the bug is.  But still it's annoying.

--bb