English Dictionary

fall-through

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(programming) In certain programming constructs, the situation where execution passes to the next condition in a list unless explicitly redirected.

日本語の意味

（プログラミング）明示的な分岐がない場合に、制御が次のブロックや条件に自動的に渡る現象。

The bug was caused by an unexpected fall-through in the switch statement, which allowed the wrong handler to run.

switch文で予期しないフォールスルーが発生し、誤ったハンドラが実行されてしまいました。

意味（1）

(programming) In certain programming constructs, the situation where execution passes to the next condition in a list unless explicitly redirected.

It is a good idea to comment the (rare) cases in which a fall-through is intentional so that an uncommented fall-through can be assumed to be an error.

fall-throughs （ plural ）

switch { case 1: printf （ canonical ）

break （ canonical ）

case 2: printf （ canonical error-unknown-tag ）

case 3: printf "Printed when x=2 （ canonical ）

x=3" （ canonical ）

} A case statement in the C programming language containing a fall-through. Because the second case has no "break" at the end （ canonical ）

execution will "fall through" to the third case. （ canonical ）