This can obviously be expanded to top to bottom programming, and there's a related principle of reorder / relocation. If/else if fails the relocation principal

This can obviously be expanded to top to bottom programming, and there's a related principle of reorder / relocation. If/else if fails the relocation principal across many languages, since the first must be if, and middles else if. Switch tends to pass. Languages that don't allow trailing commas also fail