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

Russ Bishop xenadu at gmail.com
Sat Jan 21 00:02:50 CST 2017


> On Jan 20, 2017, at 12:45 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Jan 20, 2017, at 12:22 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> on Sat Dec 05 2015, jgroff at apple.com (Joe Groff) wrote:
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>> We should just call a spade a spade and spell that "goto" ;-)
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> Cool by me. This does have the nice benefit over traditional 'goto' that each strand of spaghetti at least has a well-defined lexical scope, and a controlled way of passing state among scopes by pattern matching.
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> -Joe
> 

My dad always told me setjmp/longjmp "builds character". 

What kind of character was never explained.



Russ

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