> On May 10, 2018, at 11:03 AM, Guy Steele <guy.ste...@oracle.com> wrote: > > >> On May 10, 2018, at 10:11 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com> wrote: >> >> This was the thinking behind UA1; that sometimes you were going to want to >> "fall into" an arrow case > > "What I propose IS NOT FALLTHROUGH!” he continues to howl into the darkness > (but otherwise keeps his mouth zipped, because he is done arguing** :-).
Didn’t mean to step on that landmine; my comment was merely syntactic. > The introduction of patterns may disrupt that model. If so, so be it, but > that is a big-deal change, and it will need to be explained carefully. It does in at least one degree. Once you have nested patterns, or guards, or explicit `continue`, you need a way to “re-run” the switch starting somewhere other than the beginning.
