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What is a fall-through?

What is a fall-through? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (programming) In certain programming constructs, the situation where execution passes to the next condition in a list unless explicitly redirected.
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Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.
If you place default elsewhere, then a break will be required to prevent fall-through.
Specifically, it prohibits fall-through conditions in almost all cases.
It is a good idea to comment the cases in which a fall-through is intentional so that an uncommented fall-through can be assumed to be an error.

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