exit statement or the end of the switch statement. When control branches to one case, but continues into the subsequent branch, the control flow is called fall through, and allows branching to the same code for multiple values.

Fall through is prevented by ending a case with a keyword (i.e. ), but a common mistake is to accidentally omit the keyword, causing unintentional fall through and often a bug. Therefore, many consider this language feature to be dangerous, and often fall through code