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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
fall through
v 1: fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" [syn: fall
through, fall flat, founder, flop]
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2. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
fall through
v.
(n. fallthrough, var.: fall-through)
1. To exit a loop by exhaustion, i.e., by having fulfilled its exit
condition rather than via a break or exception condition that exits from
the middle of it. This usage appears to be really old, dating from the
1940s and 1950s.
2. To fail a test that would have passed control to a subroutine or some
other distant portion of code.
3. In C, ?fall-through? occurs when the flow of execution in a switch
statement reaches a case label other than by jumping there from the switch
header, passing a point where one would normally expect to find a break. A
trivial example:
switch (color)
case GREEN:
do_green();
break;
case PINK:
do_pink();
/* FALL THROUGH */
case RED:
do_red();
break;
default:
do_blue();
break;
The variant spelling /* FALL THRU */ is also common.
The effect of the above code is to do_green() when color is GREEN, do_red()
when color is RED, do_blue() on any other color other than PINK, and (and
this is the important part) do_pink() and then do_red() when color is PINK.
Fall-through is considered harmful by some, though there are contexts
(such as the coding of state machines) in which it is natural; it is
generally considered good practice to include a comment highlighting the
fall-through where one would normally expect a break. See also Duff's
device.
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3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
fall through
fall thru
(The American misspelling "fall thru" is
also common)
1. To exit a loop by exhaustion, i.e. by having fulfilled its
exit condition rather than via a break or exception condition
that exits from the middle of it. This usage appears to be
*really* old, dating from the 1940s and 1950s.
2. To fail a test that would have passed control to a
subroutine or some other distant portion of code.
3. In C, "fall-through" occurs when the flow of execution in a
switch statement reaches a "case" label other than by
jumping there from the switch header, passing a point where
one would normally expect to find a "break". A trivial
example:
switch (colour)
case GREEN:
do_green();
break;
case PINK:
do_pink();
/* FALL THROUGH */
case RED:
do_red();
break;
default:
do_blue();
break;
The effect of the above code is to "do_green()" when colour is
"GREEN", "do_red()" when colour is "RED", "do_blue()" on any
other colour other than "PINK", and (and this is the important
part) "do_pink()" __and then__ "do_red()" when colour is "PINK".
Fall-through is considered harmful by some, though there are
contexts (such as the coding of state machines) in which it is
natural; it is generally considered good practice to include a
comment highlighting the fall-through where one would normally
expect a break. See also Duff's Device.
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Thesaurus Results for fall through:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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