Elegant solution, however, I'd prefer while(true) FOO { }.
while FOO(true) {} looks like a function call...
On 11/30/05, Sara Golemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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;
> }
>
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