On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Alan Cox <gno...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The notation in question has been standard in tools like lint since the
> end of the 1970s
Yes.
That said, maybe one option would be to annotate the "case:" and
"default:" statements if that makes people happier.
IOW, we could do something like
#define fallthrough __atttibute__((fallthrough))
and then write
fallthrough case 1:
...
which while absolutely not traditional, might look and read a bit more
logical to people. I mean, it literally _is_ a "fallthrough case", so
it makes semantic sense.
Or maybe people hate that kind of "making up new syntax" too?
Linus
