Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Traditional computational languages behave the same way:
>  when no break, the instructions continue on the following lines.
> It's an old tradition.
> (a switch/case/break can be rewritten with if/table & goto... including

> a goto to exit the switch block (as break): no break, no jump.
> 
	Not really. Both behaviours may be seen in traditional languages: C
and its descendants (C++, Java, etc) behave like that, but other
languages behave as if there was a break for each case (this
includes Basic, Pascal and its descendants and most functional
languages if I'm not mistaken).

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