> I have to admit that it was one of C's major blunders. By 
> implementing break
> they made the counterintuitive behavior (fallthrough) the default.

But it (plus a few other C 'features') makes possible a programming
construct that is at the same beatiful and ugly: the interleaved
for/switch, which unrolls a for loop while (with the same code) handling
the left-over iterations. I forgot what it's called though.

Wouter van Ooijen

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