[Idea] [Pitch] Add `match` statement as `switch`-like syntax alternative to `if case` pattern matching

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linking the discourse thread for switch statement continue

[Pitch] Introduce continue to switch statements

In the current Swift, absent `fallthrough`, the statement execution ends and no other statements are evaluated after the first match. With `fallthrough` the current clause executes and the next clause executes, and then the statement execution ends. With `continue`, the current clause executes and the switch continues searching for a matching pattern as if a pattern has not yet been matched. -- E

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On Jul 10, 2016, at 8:37 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu@gmail.com> wrote: This is a neat ide…