'break' statement when using curly braces in switch-case

Question

I use curly braces with all of my switch case statements in C/Objective-C/C++

I had not, until a few moments ago, considered whether including the break;

Answer 1

There's tons of different coding styles of how to combine curly braces and switches. I'll use the one I prefer in the examples. The break statement breaks out of the innermost loop or switch statement, regardless of location. You could for example have multiple breaks for a single case:

switch (foo) {
case 1:
    {
        if (bar)
            break;
        bar = 1;
        ...
    }
    break;
}

Note that you can also put the cases anywhere, though that is somewhat considered bad practice. The case label is very much like a goto label. It has happened that I've written something like this:

switch (foo) {
case 1:
    bar = 1;
    if (0) {
case 2:
        bar = 2;
    }
    ...
    break;
}

but use it with care.