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Tutorial: specify match cases don't fall through (GH-93615) (GH-94084)

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@ -253,8 +253,10 @@ at a more abstract level. The :keyword:`!pass` is silently ignored::
A :keyword:`match` statement takes an expression and compares its value to successive
patterns given as one or more case blocks. This is superficially
similar to a switch statement in C, Java or JavaScript (and many
other languages), but it can also extract components (sequence elements or
object attributes) from the value into variables.
other languages), but it's more similar to pattern matching in
languages like Rust or Haskell. Only the first pattern that matches
gets executed and it can also extract components (sequence elements
or object attributes) from the value into variables.
The simplest form compares a subject value against one or more literals::