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Re: [amibroker] Re: Nested Switch() statements



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Hi Tomasz - Do you thnk it is worthwhile ( maybe speed increase, for 
example? ) to convert existing if-else if-else if...  over to Switch() ? 
Thank you!

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Nested Switch() statements


> Hello,
>
> Frankly speaking fall-through is one of BEST features of switch() 
> statement.
> I use it thousands of times. Implementations lacking that are missing
> single most important thing in switch() statement.
>
> K&R "The C Programming Language" book is really recommended reading.
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nigel Rowe" <rho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Nested Switch() statements
>
>
>> On Fri, 25 May 2007, Ton Sieverding wrote:
>>> Can you please explain me why 'switch statements are a frequent
>>> source of bugs' ? If the last CASE is a DEFAULT then all possible
>>> cases are covered. Or am I missing something in the AFL SWITCH
>>> statement ?
>>>
>>> switch ( expression )
>>> {
>>>     case constant-expression1 : statement;
>>>     case constant-expression2 : statement;
>>>     ...
>>>     case constant-expressionN : statement;
>>>
>>>     default : statement;
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> Ton.
>>
>> The 'standard' error when using a switch statement in 'C' and presumably
>> AFL, is forgetting to put 'break;' statements in.
>>
>> To paraphrase your example (above) so it looks like this:-
>>
>> switch ( expression )
>> {
>>    case constant-expression1 : statement1;
>>    case constant-expression2 : statement2;
>>    ...
>>    case constant-expressionN : statementN;
>>    default : statement_default;
>> }
>>
>> If you leave out the break statements, and
>> expression==constant_expression1 you will execute statement1 (what you
>> wanted) AND ALSO statement2 AND ALSO statement3 AND ALSO ... statementN
>> AND ALSO statement_default.
>>
>> It's sometimes called the 'fall-through' bug.  It's easy to miss, can be
>> a right pain!
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Nigel Rowe
>> rho \N{COMMERCIAL AT} swiftdsl \N{FULL STOP} com \N{FULL STOP} au
>>
>>
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