Beeflang - open source performance-oriented compiled programming language

[Sebastiaan Koppe]

On Friday, 10 January 2020 at 09:00:53 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 January 2020 at 17:41:31 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> 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);
>> }
>
> Use goto, then people will know that these breaks are gotos in 
> disguise and the code is more readable (less indentation, no 
> confusion with a loop, no catastrophic nesting where you don't 
> know where the break go to) and is much simpler to modify.
>
> void main() {
>     int result;
>     int c = 2;
>     if (c == 0)
>       goto skip;
>     string op = "+";
>     if (op != "+")
>       goto skip;
>     int c2 = 3;
>     if (c2 == 0)
>       goto skip;
>     result = c + c2;
> skip:
>     assert(result == 5);
> }
>

or don't do too many things at-once:

void main() {
   auto result() {
     int c = 2;
     if (c == 0)
       return c;
     string op = "+";
     if (op != "+")
       return c;
     int c2 = 3;
     if (c2 == 0)
       return c;
     return c + c2;
   }
   assert(result == 5);
}