Re: switch()

[Walter Bright]

On 2/17/2014 2:43 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:

Now suppose bit_flag can get an additional "new_bit_flag" value. How does
"default" helps me notice that I'm supposed to add it to that switch statement?

Because if you account for all the cases, you write:

   default: assert(0);

Now you intentionally tell the user that you intentionally covered all the 
cases.