Treatment of nested 'break'

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Wed May 9 20:32:43 UTC 2018


> The key readability question is: can I readily find this value break's target? I think the answer will usually be "yes", even when nested in other constructs. If not, I worry that that's a fatal problem with 'break', and we should be looking at a different keyword.

The thing this model tries to avoid is having “break” and “break e” in the same scope apply to different constructs.  Code like:

    if (foo)
        break;
    else
        break 3;

seems pretty confusing.  The model here is that break is like return; the type of its operand must agree with the enclosing method.  




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