multi-way branch

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abbreviation Technical meaning of MULTI-WAY BRANCH switch statement 3
noun Definition of multi-way branch in Technology (programming) (Or case statement, multi-way branch) A construct found in most high-level languages for selecting one of several possible blocks of code or branch destinations depending on the value of an expression. An example in C is switch (foo(x, y)) { case 1: printf("Hello\n"); /* fall through */ case 2: printf("Goodbye\n"); break; case 3: printf("Fish\n"); break; default: fprintf(stderr, "Odd foo value\n"); exit(1); } The break statements cause execution to continue after the whole switch statemetnt. The lack of a break statement after the first case means that execution will fall through into the second case. Since this is a common programming error you should add a comment if it is intentional. If none of the explicit cases matches the expression value then the (optional) default case is taken. A similar construct in some functional languages returns the value of one of several expressions selected according to the value of the first expression. A distant relation to the modern switch statement is Fortran's computed goto. 1

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