On Friday, 29 September 2017 at 09:12:54 UTC, Don Clugston wrote:
Or it may have just been an accident.
But regardless of the original motivation, it allows some truly
dreadful semantics.
Can we disallow this silliness please?
There are two big family of switches. C-like and Pascal like. In
Pascal you can only have cases in the switch.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_statement#Semantics
The C form doesn't prevent you to be stricter but it's all about
self-discipline since the compiler will allow everything in there.
