[Python-Dev] switch-based programming in Python

[Eric S. Raymond]

Skip Montanaro <montanaro@tttech.com>:
> One other post I saw in this thread used explicit breaks as is required in
> C.  I would get rid of that.  When the current case's code ends, control
> flow should just jump to the end of the switch.

I disagree. Such fallthrough is very useful when writing state machines,
which is a significant part of the utility of a case statement.
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