Is there ANY chance we can fix the bitwise operator precedence rules?

[Adam Ruppe]

What's the point of a switch without implicit fallthrough? If you take
that away, it offers nothing that if/elseif doesn't. (Aside from not
retyping the switch(stuff here), which you can bring into a function
anyway, so whoop-de-doo. And I guess some performance boosts in
rearranging the cases, but can't the optimizer do that in if/else
anyway?)

int Case(in int value) { return myvar == value; }

if(Case(10)) {

} else if (Case(20)) {

} else  { /* default */ }

You can even use goto and labels to simulate goto case.


I'm quite serious here: fallthrough is the defining feature of the
switch. Taking it away leaves you with nothing that if/elseif can't
already do. Might as well just axe the whole thing.

Oh yeah, the final switch would still be useful, since it offers a
check that if/elseif doesn't, but meh, move it to std.typecons, since
it is mostly for enums anyway.


(I'm not actually for removing the switch. I'm firmly in the status quo camp.)