No more fall through in case statement?

[Bill Baxter]

S. wrote:

> This whole conversation about switch was kind of lost on me, 

Don't worry, none of it will ever happen in D, anyway.

> but I have to contribute this.
> I, at various times, have written code that depends on case statements falling through, while not being identical!
> 
> For example:
> 
> switch(foo)
> {
> case 'bob':
>     //Do bob stuff
>     //Fall through and doo bar stuff too.
> case 'bar':
>     //Do bar stuff and exit   
>     break;
> 
> case 'baz':
>    //Do some baz stuff
>    break;
> }
> 
> Whatever is changed shouldn't break this.

Good news for you, then.  Nothing's going to change!

But man I wish it would, for 2.0 that is.  I've been hit at least 
half-a-dozen times in the past year by missing break statements in my D 
code.  And I have a C++ background!  So it's not about familiarity.  It 
bites me when I'm coding C++ just as frequently.  It's simply a C/C++ 
mis-feature that D failed to correct.

--bb