In Part 3 of this Swift tutorial mini-series, you’ll learn how to use comparison operators, if statements, loops and switch statements to make intelligent decisions in your code.
Hi Matt,
Thanks a lot for beautiful description and tutorial.
I have a doubt regarding fallthrough keyword
I tried following piece of code
let x = 10
switch x
{
case _ where x%2==0:
print(“Two’s multiple”)
fallthrough
case _ where x%3==0:
print(“Three’s multiple”)
fallthrough
case _ where x%5==0:
print(“Five’s multiple”)
default:
print(“Odd”)
}
I ran this with playground and expected the output to be
“Two’s multiple\n”
“Five’s multiple\n”
However I received
“Two’s multiple\n”
“Three’s multiple\n”
“Five’s multiple\n”
It would be great if you could please help me understand? Does fallthrough means compulsory execution of next case? I assumed it was just to continue case matching
Hi @anoopnyati!
I can see your confusion! But yes, what you say about compulsory execution is correct. fallthrough means that it will always execute the next case as well.
Hey @mattjgalloway,
Thanks for the reply 
That’s interesting, so fallthrough means compulsory execution of next statement!
So is it possible to achieve the behaviour in Swift that I wanted to, in the above example i.e. fall through next case but execute only if the case value matches?
I recommend chaining ‘if’ statements rather than using a switch in your case.
Thanks for these tutorials ! I bought the ‘2D apple games by tutorials’ book and was finding it hard to follow.
I did this mini series and now realise learning a few things about swift first is probably really beneficial !
it took me 16 hours over 5 days to get through all the content here, I could do all the challenges ( but they werent easy ! )
thanks again for this great content.
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