Changing Feels Like Values?

[mcrossley]

The 'default' is just another case block, so like any other it may or may not have a break; statement. The switch will terminate the final case block at the switch close if there is no break present.

[William Grimsley]

Oh, right! That's a very interesting fact, Mark! I never knew that! LOL

[BCJKiwi]

Well yes it is another item in the switch structure but
"default:" surely has a different meaning to "case x:"
- i.e. isn't default already the terminator of the switch statement - no break required?

(sorry just being pedantic here - ignore me if you wish )

[steve]

It's not required, but it's optional, just as it is with any of the other branches. If the 'default' is the last branch, the break has no effect, just as it would have no effect on the last 'case' if there were no 'default'. The 'default' branch doesn't have to be the last one; by convention it usually is.

The 'break' isn't actually anything to do with the switch statement, it's just the normal 'break' statement which says 'terminate this code block', so it's just part of the statements to be executed in the branch.

[mcrossley]

The 'break' isn't actually anything to do with the switch statement, it's just the normal 'break' statement which says 'terminate this code block', so it's just part of the statements to be executed in the branch.

and some might argue that it should really have been made implicit before the next case statement, and that to fall through you would have to explicitly 'continue'.