About switch case statements...

[Denis Koroskin]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:58:44 +0300, MIURA Masahiro <echochamber at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 11/16/2009 02:49 AM, Chad J wrote:
>> So, switch-case statements are a frequent source of nasty bugs.  Fixing
>> them (well) requires breaking backwards compatibility.
>>
>> Any chance this will happen for D2?
>
> If I remember correctly, one of D's design policies is
> that a D code that looks like C code should behave like C.
> Are we giving up that policy?

It is a good policy to follow but there are cases where C behavior may  
differ from D behavior (when code is copy-pasted and not adjusted  
according to languages difference). I've just posted an example in a  
different thread:

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=101322