User error or bug?

[Kizoky]

So I'm not entirely sure if it's intentional or not
In languages like C++ I'm able to put code inside switches outside of cases, in ZScript this gets completely ignored

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// example: ('Print!' will not get printed)
void MyFunction()
{
	switch (someinteger)
	{
		Console.Printf("Print!");
		case 1: Stuff2Do(); break;
	}
}

is this considered user error?

[Player701]

I guess that when the switch statement executes, it simply doesn't find a case: to jump to, and skips the entire statement altogether. Note that this is also true for C (and likely C++ too). The only possible usage I see here is to declare a local variable within the scope of the switch statement. Note, however, that if you try to immediately assign a value to it (e.g. int x = 42;), it will not work - and this is not a bug, since the code is effectively unreachable, but the declaration works because the stack space for local variables is allocated upon entering the block.

[Graf Zahl]

No bug here. C's switch statement is not really one of the language's shining moments.

[Kizoky]

I see, thanks for the clarifications