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[Neal Gafter]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:51 PM, John Nilsson <john at milsson.nu> wrote:

> The idea behind the try syntax thing was that the macro would inject the
> code blocks at the points where the client used break/continue/return but
> keep the actual control transfer (in relation to the defined block).  A
> slight modification to standard Java might be required to allow breaks and
> continues from any block.
>
> Both break and continue jumps to the end of the block and triggers the
> behaviour specified by the macro. return returns from the method where the
> block was declared but triggers the trapped behaviour.
>
> Using the try-syntax I was trying to appeal to the known semantics of
> finally-clauses.
>

I think it would be instructive to see how the concurrent loop would work.

<
http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/10/concurrent-loops-using-java-closures.html
>
<http://markmahieu.blogspot.com/2008/08/for-eachconcurrently.html>

How would you do this using the macro scheme?

-Neal
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