title: why Fall-Through by Default for Switch Statements?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/252489/why-was-the-switch-statement-designed-to-need-a-break">Why was the switch statement designed to need a break?</a>  </p>
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  <p>The interesting  phenomenon of most popular language [c, c++, java] is that switch  by default is fall-through.</p>
  
  <p>I am curious about reason, does someone know this story?</p>