Beeflang - open source performance-oriented compiled programming language

[jmh530]

On Thursday, 9 January 2020 at 17:19:38 UTC, Gregor Mückl wrote:
> [snip]
>
> do {} has a separate meaning in beef. These blocks are not 
> looping, but using break; is valid in them to skip to their 
> end. While this is certainly creative, I don't know if it all 
> that useful. But it burns the "do" keyword in the grammar and 
> something else is required to start a do/while block.

I think his point is that do {} while(false) is basically a 
non-looping do statement. So you can use breaks within it like 
below (adapting the example from beeflang.org). The only 
difference I can see is that you can return from Beef's do 
statement. There's probably a way to do that in D, but I haven't 
thought a lot about it.

void main() {
     int result;
     do {
         int c = 2;
         if (c == 0)
             break;
         string op = "+";
         if (op != "+")
             break;
         int c2 = 3;
         if (c2 == 0)
             break;
         result = c + c2;
     } while (false);
     assert(result == 5);
}