Understanding switch-case fall-through in Java

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Scala and Kotlin both build on Java, and they both carry over many features that are familiar to C and C++ programmers, like if statements, while and do-while loops.

But not switch-case statements. The inventors of both Scala and Kotlin wanted the functionality of switch-case, but without the fall-through semantics that confuse so many programmers.