[swift-evolution] Proposal: Remove the "fallthrough" keyword

[thorsten at portableinnovations.de]

Initially I thought that reswitch (apart from the name :-) looked nice the example of Alex  seems to mix two parts of a recursive algorithm into one statement: pattern matching the head of a list and recursing.

Then I realized that instead of introducing reswitch you can simply extract the switch into a method and call that recursively. This would have the added benefit that instead of "reswitch" the (hopefully) expressive name of the function would be used, making the intent clearer:

func find(n: T, in list: List<T>) -> Bool {
    switch list {
    case .Cons(let m, _) where m == n:
        return true
    case .Cons(_, let rest):
        return find(n, in: rest)
    case .Empty:
        return false
    }
}

-Thorsten 

> Am 06.12.2015 um 22:28 schrieb Alex Lew via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org>:
> 
> switch lst {
> case .Cons(let m, _) where m == n:
>      return true
> case .Cons(_, let rest):
>     reswitch(rest)
> case .Empty:
>      return false
> }
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