Re: New switch/case idea
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Apr 02, 2009
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Yes, we have such a word, literal translation sounds as "delay".
The English word "delay" is not the same as "do" or "perform", in fact it is almost the opposite. "delay" is used to mean "don't perform the action for now".
But, first, all Russian computer science tell us about cycles for these constructs
That's nice but so what? The word "do" does not imply a looping or cyclic action. It is used as a marker to begin the block of code that is being control by the previous statement. If that previous statement is a looping construct then "do" marks the begining of a loop, if the previous statement is not a looping construct, the "do" marks the begining of a non-looping block. Actually to be very consistent we should be using the syntax ...
if condition do block end if
second, do you think I do not speak Russian?
Of course not. I do however know that I don't speak your language and I believe that English is not your primary language. So therefore, I was confirming if there was a SINGLE Russian word that means the same as the English phrase "perform an action", because that is closer to the meaning we are using "do" for than "cycle". In fact, "cycle" here in English could be a bit confusing.
In the end, I was just trying to see if there might be an alternate Russian word that you can use for all these constructs rather than the Russian that means "cycle".
