Description Joerg Pleumann 2003-01-24 11:36:37 EST

I'd like to see an additional (optional) error/warning generated by the 
compiler when switch/case is used in a dangerous way, that is, when case parts 
are not terminated by a break or return statement. While there will surely be 
lots of "old school" C-type hackers that happily make use of this "feature", I 
consider it bad style and error-prone. My experience is that it's usually a 
bug. And since it's so hard to find it, because everything compiles fine, it 
would be nice to have the compiler enforce a better programming style by 
issuing a warning here. If you do support this, please consider that the 
following case with multiple case labels for the same code still needs to work:

switch(..) {
  case 1:
  case 2:
  case 3:
    ...
}