I always thought the urge to replace switches with objects was fashionably bad advice. I get that the object literal approach feels more functional, and that f

I always thought the urge to replace switches with objects was fashionably bad advice. I get that the object literal approach feels more functional, and that forgotten break statements will cause havoc tho. Seems like a safeswitch construct is in order, that does not allow dropthrough. something like: safeswitch(s) { case 'alpha': calc(alpha(x), 2); case 'beta': calc(beta(x), beta(x*x)); } else { // default case here calc(x); } alternatively, switch could be modified so that passthrough is not the default, and so, instead of a break statement one would use a passthrough statement to enable that behavior (opt in instead of opt out)