On 5/18/2019 3:42 PM, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
Lazy... you've got a bloody cheek. Well I guess there's no point in
me contributing anything more if that's how you honestly view me. I
wasn't aware of the ISO that dictated that a case block shouldn't just
fall through until today, and C/C++ and Basic never threw similar
errors or warnings, so I didn't know this was a thing.
Wow, a bit jumpy, aren't we?
As we are talking here about a Pascal compiler, it doesn't matter what
C/C++ or BASIC do. And even in other programming languages, properly
acting upon unexpected conditions is good programming practice. And
commonly people programming in Pascal are ones that try to adhere to
good programming practices, not just ignore them out of whatever
convenience they might perceive.
A warning from the compiler is hence an appropriate response, telling
the programmer to check the source and make a decision, even if it is
adding an empty else clause to the offending case statement. Everything
else is just "lazy programming", like it or not...
Ralf
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