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fallthrough

fallthrough is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of fallthrough

pluralfallthroughs

Questions about fallthrough

What is fallthrough the alternative spelling of?
Fallthrough is the alternative spelling of fall-through.

Words near fallthrough in the dictionary

  1. Fallside
  2. fallstreak
  3. fallstreak hole
  4. fallstreak holes
  5. fallstreaks
  6. fallthrough
  7. fallthroughs
  8. falltide
  9. falltime
  10. Fallujah
  11. fallway

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