Is there ANY chance we can fix the bitwise operator precedence rules?

Don nospam at nospam.com
Mon Jun 21 21:06:59 PDT 2010


Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> On 06/21/2010 05:11 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>
>> Having something like "fallthrough" or "goto next case" would of
>> course be even clearer, but those would require new keywords.
> 
> I think "fallthrough" would be a perfect keyword to add here. C 
> programmers will immediately recognize it. Switch/case are already 
> specialized keywords, and fallthrough can complete the set. It's 
> unlikely to conflict with existing source, and this is one case where 
> having a conspicuously long keyword is a good thing.
> 
> Finally, goto is ugly and continue is strongly associated with looping.

? It's most commonly used in error handling.
But, fallthrough actually is a goto.


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