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This feels very natural though, in a "principle of least surprise" kinda way. This is what you'd expect a properly designed switch statement to do.
by gkbrk 9mo ago
This feels very natural though, in a "principle of least surprise" kinda way. This is what you'd expect a properly designed switch statement to do.
- HarHarVeryFunny 9mo agoLeast surprise to who? Are there any other mainstream languages that behave this way? I think consistency is the best correlate of least surprise, so having case statements that sometimes fall though, sometimes not, seems awful.
- SoKamil 9mo agoSwift
- trinix912 9mo agoSadly many of us are so used to the C fall-through behavior that this would be quite a surprise. Personally, I'd rather see a different syntax switch (perhaps something like the Java pattern switch) or no switch at all than one that looks the same as in all C-style languages but works just slightly differently.
- epage 9mo agoIt reads naturally but I can see people getting tripped up writing this. Worse for changing existing code. Refactor in a way that removes a body? Likely forget to add a breake