Hi,
your 'for call {|| ...}' is great and simple solution for (unlabeled) break,
but it is not so for continue. For either continue could have the redesigned
meaning I sketched out in my last post, but then you need expression to
specify; or you want the legacy meaning of "go on with the next step" which
you can't achieve by simply skipping to end of the block and returning
undefined - it works as continue in forEach and every, but not in some, for
example.
Herby
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From: Grant Husbands
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:51 PM
To: Brendan Eich
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Block Lambdas: break and continue
Brendan Eich wrote:
More when I reply to Axel in a bit.
I think there may have been a misunderstanding. My proposed solution
amounts to syntactic sugar over the existing strawman and makes
break/continue work intuitively with loopy block lambdas, and your
reply to Axel appears to be against an exception-based version, but
you seem to have (implicitly) tied them together.
Of course we want to uphold TCP, which constrains the design. What works
here must work in a regular block statement as body of such a loopish
structure.
Well, the LCP (Loop Correspondence Principle :) is maintained. So, you
can change your loop construct from:
for (var i=0; i<arr.length; ++i) {
var o = arr[i];
if (...) break;
}
To this:
for arr.ForEach { |o|
if (...) break;
}
And it still works, without needing to throw exceptions or alter the
existing library code. I believe TCP to be maintained everywhere it
might apply, not least because there's a syntactic opt-in, but I may
have missed what you're pointing out.
If the syntax conflicts disastrously with paren-free, then a suitable
nearby syntax could be chosen. I'm not attached to the syntax; I'm
simply offering an implementation strategy that's minimal, matches
most requirements and doesn't appear to break any of the imposed
rules; I don't know the other strawman proposals well enough to avoid
conflicting syntax. It's a boolean toggle, though, so it should be
easy to find a suitable syntax.
Regards,
Grant Husbands.
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