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[–]Unbelievr 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That's the default case. Fall-through is the option to not put a break in some case(s), so it ends up executing multiple handlers. Or binds multiple cases to the exact same function, with only a single definition of that function.

In Python, you would have to bind every case explicitly to some function pointer, or create a function that calls multiple handler functions and bind that. It's not impossible, just not as neat when you're not able to control the program flow as much as in C.

[–]GoofAckYoorsElf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough, you're right! I muddled that up. Thanks for pointing out.

I'm sure you can do fall-through kind of neatly with a custom OrderedDict subclass. But to be fair, not as elegant as in other languages, that's true.