On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:31:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > don't have to worry about undocumented extensions etc.
>
> Infact I don't blame gcc maintainers for that, but the standard. Ok, minor
> issue.
Yeah, and nothing we can do about it any more.. Oh, well.
The fact is that the
case xxx: ;
syntax is fairly ugly, so I'd prefer the fixup patches to look more like
case xxx:
/* fallthrough */ ;
}
or something (or maybe just a "break" statement), just so that we don't
turn the poor C language into line noise (can anybody say "perl" ;)
I have to say, I think it was Pascal had this "no semicolon needed before
an 'end'" rule, and I always really hated that. The C statement rules make
a lo tmore sense, and requiring a statement after a case statement is
probably a very good requirement from a language standpoint. It's just not
very pretty - but adding a break or a comment will at least separate out
the colon and the semi-colon a bit.
Linus
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