Treatment of nested 'break'

Guy Steele guy.steele at oracle.com
Thu May 10 19:48:08 UTC 2018


> On May 10, 2018, at 3:57 PM, Kevin Bourrillion <kevinb at google.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm just going to say that naming a keyword as the argument of another keyword seems novel and unprecedented for Java, and as such I think should require pretty strong justification.

I concur.  Note that “case x, default ->” has the same property: it causes the `default` keyword to be an “argument” of the `case` keyword.  I kind of lean against doing such things.

However, if we are going to explore that part of the design space, I just wanted to point out that “return switch a;” has at least one advantage relative to “break switch a;”.



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