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Re: Break for last case in switch

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Stefan Weiss wrote:
>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>> Stefan Weiss wrote:
>>>> JavaScript Lint is mistaken.
>>> You are mistaken.
>> 
>> No. Please re-read what I wrote. I said:
> 
> Please re-read what you have replied to in the first place.
> 
>>>> A 'break;' at the end of the last clause in a switch statement would be
>>>> redundant.
>> 
>> I did _not_ say "at the end of the default clause".
> 
> The "last case" in the original code is the `default' clause.  ISTM *that*
> was here the missing `break' statement was being warned about.  Rather
> ambiguously for sure, but there it was.

And regardless of the misconceptions of a well-known wannabe, that is 
exactly what happened here.

<http://www.javascriptlint.com/online_lint.php> shows *two* warnings for 
this code –

Line 3, column 1: "lint warning: missing semicolon"
Line 8, column 1: "lint warning: missing break statement for last case in 
switch"

– while, if the `break' statement in the last `case' clause is omitted, it 
shows *three* warnings:

Line 3, column 1: "lint warning: missing semicolon"
Line 6, column 9: "lint warning: missing break statement"
Line 8, column 1: "lint warning: missing break statement for last case in 
switch"

So it is not a bug, it is a feature.  A questionable feature because it uses 
ambiguous wording, but there it is.


PointedEars
-- 
    realism:    HTML 4.01 Strict
    evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
    madness:    XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
                                                    -- Bjoern Hoehrmann

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Break for last case in switch Archos <raul.san@sent.com> - 2011-12-18 11:04 -0800
  Re: Break for last case in switch Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 20:43 +0100
    Re: Break for last case in switch "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-12-18 22:13 +0200
    Re: Break for last case in switch Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 12:21 -0800
    Re: Break for last case in switch Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-18 21:37 +0100
      Re: Break for last case in switch Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 21:58 +0100
        Re: Break for last case in switch Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-18 22:29 +0100
          Re: Break for last case in switch "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-12-18 23:49 +0200
          Re: Break for last case in switch Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-18 23:09 +0100
            Re: Break for last case in switch "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-12-19 00:32 +0200
          Re: Break for last case in switch Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 23:25 +0100
            Re: Break for last case in switch Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-19 00:06 +0100
              Re: Break for last case in switch Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 05:30 +0100
                Re: Break for last case in switch Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-19 16:04 +1100
                Re: Break for last case in switch Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-19 12:25 +0100
                Re: Break for last case in switch "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-19 17:17 +0000
                Re: Break for last case in switch Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-19 12:19 -0800
                Re: Break for last case in switch "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-12-19 14:47 +0200
                Re: Break for last case in switch John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-19 15:50 +0000
                Re: Break for last case in switch "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-12-19 18:45 +0200
                Re: Break for last case in switch Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-19 12:22 -0800

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