Switch-case made less buggy, now with PATCH!

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 11/22/2009 08:22 AM, Don wrote:
>
> You've missed the point. Andrei made a proposal for eliminating
> accidental fallthrough bugs. It didn't involve any new syntax, and
> changed very little existing code. Anything which violates either of
> those things has very little chance of acceptance. You've done a patch
> which completely ignores his proposal, and which violates both.
>
> The comment about the auto-generated code raises an aspect which hadn't
> been considered in the original proposal.

What was Andrei's proposal? If my memory serves (big if), he just wanted 
to disallow fallthrough and require use of 'goto case' when fallthrough 
is desired.

I'm having a hard time following this discussion, but where is auto 
generated code an issue under this patch versus Andrei's proposal versus 
what we have now? And how does this patch change more code than Andrei's 
proposal would?

I'm assuming this patch is modified to allow

case 1:
case 2:
	...