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Re: Euphoria features

• Posted by "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET> Nov 15, 1999
• 517 views

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> Sender:       Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
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> Poster:       "Cuny, David at DSS" <David.Cuny at DSS.CA.GOV>
> Subject:      Re: Euphoria features
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> Would work. But there are 'while' loops as well. I suppose you could add
> labels to the loops, as in:
>
>    outerWhile: while true do
>       for i = 1 to 10 do
>          ...
>          leave outerWhile:
>          ...
>       end for
>    end while

Hmm, Exiting while loops does pose a bit of a problem.
This will definately require even more consideration.

> This strikes me as being less clear than the pure GOTO, and it disallows
> instance where you have a series of instructions, but want to stop if an
> error is encountered:
>
>    if handle = -1 then
>       goto fileError:
>    end if
>
>    ...
>    if writeResult = -1 then
>       goto fileError:
>    end if
>
>    ...
>    if closeFileResult = -1 then
>       goto fileError:
>
>    ...
>    return
>
>    fileError:
>    ...
>    return
>
>
> Yes, I know that you could set a flag, etc. But it still seems to me that
> the GOTO best expresses the intent of the code: if an error is
encountered,
> skip the rest of the code and run the error handler.
>
> -- David Cuny
>

    David,  That would be a GOSUB.
Basic's "ON ERROR GOSUB Label" comes to mind

What does this mean?  It means I would use a subroutine to handle it
in the first place.


procedure fileError()
  --Handle the file Error.

  if can_not_handle then
    abort(err_code)--
  end if
end procedure


 if handle = -1 then
   fileError():
 end if

  ...
  if writeResult = -1 then
    fileError():
  end if

  ...
  if closeFileResult = -1 then
    fileError():
  end if

PS: No, My idea of exit(A) or exit[A] isn't mimicking others
    similar ideas.  I simply had not read those messages
    before forming that thought.  Same with my other near
    identical response to a previous message.


As usual, someone seems to beat me to the punch.

        Lucius L. Hilley III
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