More like the trend of “bolting everything they’ve ever heard on to the language spec”. This is a half-assed, syntactically ugly implementation of case stateme

More like the trend of “bolting everything they’ve ever heard on to the language spec”. This is a half-assed, syntactically ugly implementation of case statements in functional languages like Elm or Haskell - the point of which is to cover all possible executions of a branch explicitly, to prevent runtime errors.