No fall-through for switch (WAS: Re: [Submission] D Slices)

[bearophile]

Andrej Mitrovic:

> Hey I've just realized something (well, it was in the docs, doh!), we
> can use already use "switch case;" to fallthrough to the next label
> without explicitly using goto:
> 
> void main()
> {
>     int x = 2;
>     switch (x)
>     {
>         case 2:
>             goto case;  // goto case 3;
>             break;
> 
>         case 3:

This is good to have, but I don't find this syntax easy to understand, readable, natural. A "@fallthrough" is much more explicit, but it's a very specialized thing.

Bye,
bearophile