no-useless-switch-case.md

Disallow useless case in switch statements

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An empty case before the last default case is useless.

Fail

switch (foo) {
	case 1:
	default:
		handleDefaultCase();
		break;
}

Pass

switch (foo) {
	case 1:
	case 2:
		handleCase1And2();
		break;
}

switch (foo) {
	case 1:
		handleCase1();
		break;
	default:
		handleDefaultCase();
		break;
}

switch (foo) {
	case 1:
		handleCase1();
		// Fallthrough
	default:
		handleDefaultCase();
		break;
}

switch (foo) {
	// This is actually useless, but we only check cases where the last case is the `default` case
	case 1:
	default:
		handleDefaultCase();
		break;
	case 2:
		handleCase2();
		break;
}