At 11:58 AM 8/1/00 -0500, Brust, Corwin wrote:
>Would simple do { } blocks then also be cantidates for becoming Code Blocks?
I would hope not--I've used them in code specifically because they are
*not* control blocks, yet still get you a new level of scope.
What I'd rather see is the concept of the 'looped statement'--i.e. any
single statement that has a loop modifier on it could be lasted. So this:
last while 1;
would be a noop, but people doing Evil Things with lists and whatnot could
still last out, like so:
(foo(), bar() || die, baz() || last) while (xyzzy());
which would exit out of the looping statement as soon as baz() returned false.
You could, I suppose, separate out the lexical scoping properties of a
block from the loop control properties, so we have non-looping blocks that
define scope, or looping blocks that don't. (I'd propose characters, but I
passed on picking up the Unicode spec over lunch (didn't want to throw my
back out... ;))
Dan
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