On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> wrote:
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>> On 13 Jun 2017, at 19:34, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just managed to write
>>
>> while True {
>> ...
>> break if $code eq 'exit';
>> ...
>> }
>>
>>
>> I wonder if Rakudo could be more cleaver in this particular case and
>> remind me to use 'last' instead of 'break'.
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> Is the undeclared sub error not helpful enough?
I think for someone who comes from a language where 'break' is the
keyword, this would be very surprising
and an telling that person it is called 'last' in Perl 6 would be a nice touch.
>
> Alternately, you could do:
>
> my &break := &last;
>
> and have it just do the right thing :-)
>
>
> Finally,
>
> while True {
>
> is better written as:
>
> loop {
>
> :-)
>
>
>
> Liz
Thanks
Gabor
