1. A Euphoria wish list item (minor)
While everyone is fighting about the future of the languange, I have a
minor suggestion that I would find quite convienient:
Modify the "exit" statement so I can break out of nested loops, like the
"break" statement in PHP.
So "exit" would become shorthand for "exit(1)", while "exit(2)" would
break out of two loops, "exit(3)" would break out of 3, etc...
Currently, I have to do something like this:
for i = 1 to 10 do
for j = 1 to 10 do
-- do whatever
if some_sequence[i][j] = whatever then
exit_flag = TRUE
exit
end if
end for
if exit_flag = TRUE then
exit
end if
end for
...wheras a nice "exit(2)" inside the j loop would do nicely...
2. Re: A Euphoria wish list item (minor)
On 15 Feb 2002, at 20:49, Andy Serpa wrote:
>
> While everyone is fighting about the future of the languange, I have a
> minor suggestion that I would find quite convienient:
>
> Modify the "exit" statement so I can break out of nested loops, like the
> "break" statement in PHP.
>
> So "exit" would become shorthand for "exit(1)", while "exit(2)" would
> break out of two loops, "exit(3)" would break out of 3, etc...
Ewwwwwww!
> Currently, I have to do something like this:
>
> for i = 1 to 10 do
> for j = 1 to 10 do
> -- do whatever
> if some_sequence[i][j] = whatever then
then goto nextstep
> exit_flag = TRUE
> exit
> end if
> end for
> if exit_flag = TRUE then
> exit
> end if
> end for
:nextstep:
> ...wheras a nice "exit(2)" inside the j loop would do nicely...
So does goto.
Kat
3. Re: A Euphoria wish list item (minor)
>Modify the "exit" statement so I can break out of nested loops, like >the
>"break" statement in PHP.
>
>So "exit" would become shorthand for "exit(1)", while "exit(2)" would
>break out of two loops, "exit(3)" would break out of 3, etc...
<SARCASM>
Haven't seen this request before....
</SARCASM>
P.S. Hey Kat, there's some new tags for .htx
--Mr Trick
4. Re: A Euphoria wish list item (minor)
Hi Andy!
On 15 Feb 2002, at 20:49, Andy Serpa wrote:
>
> While everyone is fighting about the future of the languange, I have a
> minor suggestion that I would find quite convienient:
>
> Modify the "exit" statement so I can break out of nested loops, like the
> "break" statement in PHP.
>
> So "exit" would become shorthand for "exit(1)", while "exit(2)" would
> break out of two loops, "exit(3)" would break out of 3, etc...
>
> Currently, I have to do something like this:
>
> for i = 1 to 10 do
> for j = 1 to 10 do
> -- do whatever
> if some_sequence[i][j] = whatever then
> exit_flag = TRUE
> exit
> end if
> end for
> if exit_flag = TRUE then
> exit
> end if
> end for
>
> ...wheras a nice "exit(2)" inside the j loop would do nicely...
>
That's the kind of minor suggestion that'll produce a major result.
Besides that, I'm quite confident that is also easier to achieve, won't
slow interpreter (I'm afraid it could go faster) and won't modify
language structure. With these possibilities, to convince Rob to
include it at v2.4 will be a lot more easy, don't you agree Rob?
-- Euler
5. Re: A Euphoria wish list item (minor)
- Posted by tone.skoda at siol.net
Feb 16, 2002
That exit (2) was my idea one year ago back in January 2001 (strange how
years fly by fast).
I originally proposed two or more exit statements followed:
while .. do
while .. do
exit
exit
end while
end while
or:
while .. do
while .. do
exit (2)
end while
end while
You can search for "exiting out of nested loops" in subject in e-mail
archives if you are interested.
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Subject: Re: A Euphoria wish list item (minor)
>
> >Modify the "exit" statement so I can break out of nested loops, like >the
> >"break" statement in PHP.
> >
> >So "exit" would become shorthand for "exit(1)", while "exit(2)" would
> >break out of two loops, "exit(3)" would break out of 3, etc...
>
> <SARCASM>
> Haven't seen this request before....
> </SARCASM>
>
>
> P.S. Hey Kat, there's some new tags for .htx
>
> --Mr Trick
>
>
>
>
