Ted Ashton wrote:
> Thus it was written in the epistle of Damian Conway,
> >
> > But a switch is not a loop.
> > Within a loop the logic is:
> >
> > next -> try next case
> > last -> this was the last case
>
> As it has already caused a little confusion, could we go with another word
> instead of next? 'fallthrough' seems a bit much to type. How about 'proceed',
> 'fall', 'exinde', 'porro', or (my favorite at the moment) 'pergo' ;-).
But that's not what "fall through" means. At least not to most people.
To "fall through" is exemplified by C's switch/case, where, unless break
is said explicitly, execution of one case falls through into the next one.
As has been said, this is not good. At least not for a default.
last ~= break
next ~= continue (not in switch, since it's not a loop)
Hey, doesn't while need an otherwise?
while ( foo ) {
}
otherwise {
# do this if the while predicate was never true.
}
--
John Porter
