yeah it seems feels delibrately awkward to leave off the last
break...sorta like writing a one line if.
On 12/21/06, Andy Herrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yea, the last break is unecessary, but I think it's a good idea to put
there. Just to have the habit of already remembering to put breaks at
the end of case statements (I've forgotten a couple times and went
nuts looking for the bug). And as Wagner mentioned, it protects
against people adding more cases to the end of the switch statement.
-Andy
On 12/21/06, Wagner Amaral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The last break on default is considered by some to be a coding
> standard, by which you explicitly say you wanted to leave the default
> block empty, and not just simply forgot.
> Also, if unadvised people add code at the end of the switch without
> realizing the missing break, your default will fall-through.
>
>
>
> On 12/21/06, T. Michael Keesey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 12/21/06, Julien Vignali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > switch(condition){
> > > case A:
> > > break;
> > > case B:
> > > break;
> > > default:
> > > // not mendatory but should always be the last statement
> > > break;
> > > }
> >
> > That last break is actually unnecessary. The breaks are only to keep
> > it from going to the next case. In some (pretty rare) cases, you may
> > not even want to do that, e.g.:
> >
> > switch(a) {
> > case 0:
> > // Does this if a == 0
> > break;
> > case 1 :
> > // Does this if a == 1.
> > case 2 :
> > // Does this if a == 1 or a == 2.
> > default :
> > // Does this if a is anything but 0.
> > }
> >
> > --
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