request switch statement with common block

[John Colvin]

On Sunday, 4 August 2013 at 01:57:04 UTC, JS wrote:
> Stuff like i++(short form) is ONLY for convenience... yet every 
> uses it! NOT because they used it before it exists(obviously) 
> but because the language supported it and then people were able 
> to see how useful it is(and some things take a long time.

IIRC post/pre-increment/decrement syntax wasn't introduced in C 
for peoples convenience, it was there to allow naive compilers to 
use the then faster increment instructions.