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[Mandaril]

...then don't fight near edges, it's pretty simple

Whole world (or the area of your selection) is your play-field and you stand next to a ledge?!

[Hyndis]

Either carve ramps into the edge of the water so dwarves can climb out, or don't fight next to cliffs.

[Lalandrathon]

Yeah, this has been the case since the release of the first 3d version. However, you can turn dodging off as an adventurer, so the skill has definite applications.

DF2010 is the first time I've seen it in dwarf mode

Well maybe you never noticed it, but dodging was definintely in previous 3d versions.   In fact, one of the primary dangers of  40d carp was not the actual fish attack, but your dwarves dodging into the water and drowning, that is what made carp especially deadly.

Yes, and then the drowning caused them to explode into dozens of dwarf chunks. Because water does that, you know.

[Noble Digger]

As mentioned, digging a single ramp tile down into the bank of the pond will usually allow a dwarf to escape after he falls in. On the subject of Carp, think of it this way. If one unit is in a tile adjecent to another unit, even if it's above, below, diagonally, etc... That unit can make a melee attack on the other unit. Even when it doesn't make sense. If one of your dwarves is standing on the edge of a body of water, aquatic creatures under the water can hit them by attacking diagonally, causing a dodge and possible submersion.