break seen as a C archaism
Guy Steele
guy.steele at oracle.com
Thu Mar 15 19:18:34 UTC 2018
> On Mar 15, 2018, at 3:06 PM, Mark Raynsford <mark at io7m.com> wrote:
>
> On 2018-03-15T14:50:45 -0400
> Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If you are reconsidering options, reconsider "yield", meaning
>>> "break current context with this value".
>>
>> Still feeling a little burned by first time we floated this, but willing
>> to try another run up the flagpole....
>
> Silly idea, but... *puts on fireproof suit*:
>
> "finally x;"
Interestingly, the keywords `try` and `catch` and `finally` currently must each be followed by a block, so there is indeed syntactic space to use each one with a following expression instead.
Which only suggests that . . . *puts on fireproof suit and then climbs into a concrete bunker and slams the door*:
“try x;”
would be shorter and no sillier.
—Guy
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