JEP325: Switch expressions spec

[Brian Goetz]

> On May 10, 2018, at 11:03 AM, Guy Steele <guy.steele at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On May 10, 2018, at 10:11 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> This was the thinking behind UA1; that sometimes you were going to want to "fall into" an arrow case
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> "What I propose IS NOT FALLTHROUGH!” he continues to howl into the darkness (but otherwise keeps his mouth zipped, because he is done arguing** :-).

Didn’t mean to step on that landmine; my comment was merely syntactic.  

> The introduction of patterns may disrupt that model.  If so, so be it, but that is a big-deal change, and it will need to be explained carefully.

It does in at least one degree.  Once you have nested patterns, or guards, or explicit `continue`, you need a way to “re-run” the switch starting somewhere other than the beginning.