The Wrong Stuff

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/24/10 10:56 CDT, lurker wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>
>> On 9/23/10 22:59 CDT, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>>> I don't really mind it how it is, but I've known plenty of programmers
>>>> who hated the fallthrough behavior in other languages. So, it would
>>>> likely be a good change to make.
>>>
>>> I'm probably alone in this, but I've always liked the C behavior and
>>> never had a problem with it. It's probably from my asm days, as it works
>>> just like labeled asm statements do.
>>
>> Well admitting you're alone in this is the first step to recovery :o).
>>
>> Andrei
>
> He's not alone with his view. The automatic implicit porting of C code is an important feature - D should work even more like C than it does now. The syntax could also make use of a revamp, we have 'pure' and 'const' and so forth, in C those are __attribute__((pure)) and similar kind of conventions. The C approach saves keywords for actual code.

Preventing implicit fall-through is unlikely to affect large portions of 
C code, and will never compile programs with different semantics.

Andrei