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From: john@chinet.UUCP (John Mundt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Case fall throughs
Message-ID: <1411@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 11:22:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: chinet.1411
Posted: Sat Aug 15 11:22:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 11:35:31 EDT
References: <2201@zeus.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: john@chinet.UUCP (John Mundt)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <2201@zeus.TEK.COM> dant@tekla (Dan Tilque) writes:
>
>I (Dan Tilque) say that it's bad programming to have this kind of thing:
>> 	case 'a':
>> 		a = b + count;
>> 	case 'b':
>> 		count += 2;
>I expected a number of people to respond saying "I often write these kind of 
>fall throughs".  So far only one person has done so.  I admire everyone
>else's restraint (or else because of net lag I haven't seen the articles yet).

I often write that sort of thing, but I always add a comment to the
effect that I meant to do it

	case 'a' :
		do_something_wonderful();	/* fallthrough intended */
	case 'b' :
		do_something_marvelous();
		break;

It saves time and space and is readable as long as the comment
remains.
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