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fall-throughs

fall-throughs is the plural of fall-through.

Meaning of fall-through

Noun

fall-through (countable and uncountable, plural fall-throughs)

  1. 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.1997, Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language: Language Libraries and Design

Questions about fall-throughs

What is fall-throughs the plural of?
Fall-throughs is the plural of fall-through.

Words near fall-throughs in the dictionary

  1. fall-out
  2. fall-out shelter
  3. fall-out shelters
  4. fall-outs
  5. fall-through
  6. fall-throughs
  7. fall-time
  8. Falla
  9. Fallacara
  10. Fallacaras
  11. fallacies

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