OpenEuphoria

A Euphoria wish list item (minor)

• Posted by Andy Serpa <renegade at earthling.net> Feb 15, 2002
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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...