> On Dec 21, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Jacopo Andrea Giola 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> well now after some debate in the old thread and the flaws highlighted there 
> I’ve wrote e different proposal and narrowed the changes to only make 
> fallthrough respect the where clause if present and to explicitly state the 
> case where you want to fall.
> This I think will improve the safety of the keyword and can further reduce 
> hidden bugs in the keyword usage. The removing of fallthrough is in the title 
> only because with the new behaviour the meaning in not correct anymore.
> It can make sense?

I’m not sure what you mean, but I’ll take a look at the other thread.

-Chris

> 
> - Jacopo
> 
>> On 15 Dec 2015, at 22:32, Chris Lattner <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 15, 2015, at 1:03 AM, Jacopo Andrea Giola 
>>> <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Chris,
>>> 
>>> sorry for bothering you, but during the festivity I finally have some time 
>>> to work on the formal proposal draft and I’m trying to find where the 
>>> switch and fallthrough behaviours are defined.
>>> Can you point me in the right direction? I want to see if it is feasible 
>>> and fill the "Detailed design” section of the proposal with something that 
>>> has some sense and can be used as a reference on how to implement the new 
>>> keyword if is accepted.
>> 
>> Are you asking my opinion of the topic?  There were two related things 
>> discussed in the thread:
>> 
>> 1) removing fallthrough: I found the arguments personally unconvincing.  I 
>> feel that removing fallthrough would make some important things much harder 
>> to express and uglier, potentially leading to buggier code.  I also feel 
>> that the behavior of “fallthrough” is obvious even if you’re not familiar 
>> with it, so the reasons to remove ++/— and c-style-for don’t apply.
>> 
>> 2) on adding reswitch: It’s an interesting extension, but very narrow in 
>> applicability, and purely syntactic sugar over what we have now.  I don’t 
>> see a compelling reason to add it now, given the other higher priority 
>> things we need to make happen for swift 3.
>> 
>> -Chris
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much.
>>> 
>>> - Jacopo
> 

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