Re: ensuring unreachability
On 2/17/2015 4:54 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
Recently I came across a snippet like this:
switch (someEnumVar) {
case E1:
if (...) {
...; return;
} else if (...) {
...; throw ...;
} else {
...; continue; // enclosing loop
}
case E2: ...
}
No fall-through is supposed to ever happen from case E1 to case E2.
All branches in "case E1" exit abnormally. But due to the complexity
it isn't overly obvious. Lateron, someone might add another else-if
branch and forget about having it exit abnormally, then it might just
happen that it does fall through, which in the given context is never
ever wanted.
What I'd like to do is set a marker just before case E2.
Obviously, I cannot place any normal statement, because the compiler
would recognize it as unreachable and barf. So, I'd like to have some
kind of anti-statement, that's ok to be unreachable, but would make the
compiler barf if it ever *became* reachable during later development.
I'd suggest deleting the final `else' and its brackets:
case E1:
if (...) {
...; return;
} else if (...) {
...; throw ...;
}
...;
continue;
case E2: ...
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