dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

[Denis Koroskin]

On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:48:07 +0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> Chad J wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> grauzone wrote:
>>>> No. Also, this final switch feature seems to be only marginally
>>>> useful, and normal switch statements do the same, just at runtime. So
>>>> much for "more pressing issues" but it's his language and not mine so
>>>> I'll shut up.
>>> The final switch deals with a problem where you add an enum member in
>>> one file and then have to find and update every switch statement that
>>> uses that enum. There's no straightforward way to find them to ensure
>>> the case gets added to each switch.
>>>
>>> It's solving a similar problem that symbolic constants do.
>>>
>>>
>>> The fall-through thing, though, is purely local and so much less of an
>>> issue.
>>  huh?
>>  These bugs always take me no less than 2 hours to find, unless I am
>> specifically looking for fall-through bugs.
>
> I agree. Probably a good option would be to keep on requiring break, but
> also requiring the user to explicitly specify they want fallthrough in
> the rare case when they do want it. I'd love to use "continue" for that
> but it's already "occupied" by cases like while (...) switch (...).
> Requiring !break or ~break would work but is a bit too cute. Adding a
> new keyword or a whole new switch statement is too much aggravation. I
> guess we'll have to live with it...
>
>
> Andrei

Reuse goto?