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dllthomas on Sept 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let's build a browser engine, Part 6: Block layout

"C-style switch isn't powerful enough to handle this due to the _ wildcards"

Doesn't fallthrough enable you to implement wildcards? You still have to exhaustively list every option, but that's not hard here.

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