Breaks

[PIEBALDconsult]

That's one of the shortcomings of C that will cause trouble for any new C-based language that doesn't want to break code that gets ported to the new language. (Personally, I'd rather have the ideal language.) My real complaint is that if you have a switch in a loop, there are times when a case wants to break the loop, but can't (even though it can continue the loop!). There should be some other keyword for switches; break (and continue) should be reserved for loops.

[Jim Crafton]

Must be the left over VB influence...

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[Todd Smith]

what about:switch (something) { case A: case B: case C: DoSomething(); break; case D: case E: case F: DoSomethingElse(); break; .... }

Todd Smith

[Member 96]

I've used fallthrough many times over the years so yes I'd say it's required.

[Joe Woodbury]

I have used fall throughs, though I've long felt the proper implementation would be that a new case statement implies break and to fall through you write fallthrough;. (I've also wanted the equivalent of "reswitch"--that is; go back and reevaluate the expression again.)

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[Hans Dietrich]

PC-Lint will catch missing break statements, and a lot of other common coding oversights.

[Stephen Hewitt]

Not only that but a fall-though is still supported but requires the use of the goto statement. I would have preferred an explicit “fall-through” keyword.

Steve

[Eytukan]

Very good idea.

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Dario: How is "directory" in French? (I mean a file system directory). John Simmons: "zee file holdaire thingie"

[Eytukan]

Thanks. It will be really required if we have switch-case blocks that contains 1000s of lines. will suggest that to my boss.

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Dario: How is "directory" in French? (I mean a file system directory). John Simmons: "zee file holdaire thingie"

[Eytukan]

You mean, if it's case "A", it should perform A,B & C. if it's case "C", it directly comes to "C". Got it. I get the picture now!. :jig: thanks :beer:. It has it's use but as joe said above , it will really nice if we have something called fallthrough to explicitly mean it.

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Dario: How is "directory" in French? (I mean a file system directory). John Simmons: "zee file holdaire thingie"

[Eytukan]

http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=1879599#xx1879599xx[^]

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Dario: How is "directory" in French? (I mean a file system directory). John Simmons: "zee file holdaire thingie"

[Eytukan]

Someone didn't like you editing your message? :wtf:. Never mind, balanced ;)

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Dario: How is "directory" in French? (I mean a file system directory). John Simmons: "zee file holdaire thingie"

[Eytukan]

Christian Graus wrote:

Yep, they enforced break because otherwise the code is hard to read, and then they encouraged goto. Brilliant.

:laugh:

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Dario: How is "directory" in French? (I mean a file system directory). John Simmons: "zee file holdaire thingie"

[Smith]

Wow yet another case with the switch case :-D

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