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fall-through en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from fall through.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) In certain programming constructs, the situation where execution passes to the next condition in a list unless explicitly redirected.
   • Specifically, it prohibits fall-through conditions in almost all cases. 2008, Nagel et al, Professional C# 2008
   • If you place default elsewhere, then a break will be required to prevent fall-through. 2001, Graham M Seed, Barry J Cooper, An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in C++:
   • It is a good idea to comment the (rare) cases in which a fall-through is intentional so that an uncommented fall-through can be assumed to be an error. 1997, Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language: Language Libraries and Design:

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Relateds

passthrough · flowthrough