default as first option in switch statement?

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It is an unusual idiom, it causes a little pause when you’re reading it, a moment of “huh?”. It works, but most people would probably expect to find the default case at the end:

switch($kind)
{
    case 'kind2':
        // do some stuff for kind2 here
        break;

    // [...]

    case 'kindn':
        // do some stuff for kindn here
        break;

    case 'kind1':
    default: 
        // Assume kind1
        $kind = 'kind1';

        break;

}

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