Hello Sara, nice work, clean patch, good solution - thanks! what more can one say?
best regards marcus p.s.: I'll have the thousands of replies on this thread on ignore :-) Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 2:40:32 AM, you wrote: > But first, this word from our sponsor: > Group A wants anything resembling goto to burn in the fires of hell > Group B wants full non-crippled goto or nothing at all > Group C wants partial goto (non-backward jumping) or nothing at all > Groups B and C both (generally) want it called either GOTO or JUMP, not > BREAK > Since no group this size will ever come to an agreement on something this > divisive, I'd like to turn the topic to a completely different language > feature which (might) please enough people to get a rousing consensus. > Actual labeled breaks. Not the break+jump that was proposed earlier in the > guise of a break statement, but an actual straightforward, no funny-business > labeled break which does no more and no less than the current break N; > construct, but allows the use of identifier labels rather than numbers which > may change as the result of the addition or removal of break containers. > http://libssh2.org/patches/true_labeled_break.diff > Usage: > while FOO ($condition) { > /* statements */ > break FOO; > /* more statements */ > } > Or a stacked example: > for FOO(;;) { > while BAR (true) { > foreach BAZ ($arr as $val) { > switch Foof ($value) { > default: > do Plop { > break FOO; > } while (false); > } > } > } > } > Notes on this implementation: > * Labels can't be repeated in an ancestral line. For example, the parser > will throw an ERROR on the following: > while FOO(true) { > while FOO(true) { > break FOO; > } > } > * Labels can be repeated by siblings. I'm not married to this, and it > certainly has WTF potential. This behavior is easily modified to throw an > error. I left it permissable because there was no technical reason to > disallow it. For example, the following is okay: > while FOO(true) { > break; > } > while FOO(true) { > break FOO; > } > * Labeled breaks also apply to continue; For example: > foreach FOO($arr as $key => $val) { > if ($key % 2) continue FOO; > if (empty(%key)) break FOO; > } Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
