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From: v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: ensuring unreachability
Date: 19 Feb 2015 18:20:34 GMT
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Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> You need to give the maintainer some credit, also.  A maintainer has to
> be familiar enough with code that he/she can make the necessary changes.
>  This means not only the syntax of the language, but the operation of
> the code he/she is changing, and what it can affect in other areas of
> the code.  And if he/she does make a change like the OP is concerned
> about, then a code review and/or testing should catch it.

Where the code review in this case can be done mechanically, e.g.
by findbugs, which would complain about the fallthru.

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"I'm a doctor, not a mechanic." Dr Leonard McCoy <mccoy@ncc1701.starfleet.fed>
"I'm a mechanic, not a doctor." Volker Borchert  <v_borchert@despammed.com>