On 04/10/2012 05:53 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
It appears that Rust does not to have labeled loops with break and
continue by label the way Java has. Also, it appears that alt does
not have fall-through the way switch in C has.
Are break and continue by label and/or fall-through in alt supported
in some non-obvious and unadvertised way? If not, are there plans to
add to these features? (While I understand that fall-through in
switch is largely considered a misfeature, break and continue by label
seem less controversial.)
If there are no plans to add these features, what are the recommended
ways to emulate these features in a way that compiles to efficient
machine code?
The use case I have is targeting Rust with the translator that
currently targets C++ and generates the HTML parser in Gecko. (It uses
goto hidden behind macros to emulate break and continue by label in
C++.)
I spent some time piddling with Rust macros but came up empty handed. So
I don't have a solution, but eliminating obstacles to generating an HTML
parser strikes me as high priority. I opened an issue for it.
https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/2216
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