constructing labels for static foreach inside switch inside foreach

[bauss]

On Wednesday, 8 July 2020 at 02:06:01 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> OK, so I have a situation where I'm foreaching over a 
> compile-time list of types. Inside the loop, I'm using a second 
> loop over a set of input.
>
> Inside that loop, I'm using a switch on the input, and inside 
> the switch, I'm foreaching over the type's members, to 
> construct a switch that can handle member names (this is for 
> serialization).
>
> If I encounter a certain name, then I want to break out of the 
> inner loop (it's a while loop)
>
> So naturally, I have to use break statements with labels like:
>
> innerloop:
> while(haveMoreData)
>    switchstmt:
>    switch(nextDataElement) {
>       static foreach(name; __traits(allMembers, T)) {
>       case name:
>          ... // handle it
>          break switchstmt;
>       }
>       case "STOP":
>          break innerloop;
>    }
>
> Seems simple enough, except that this inner portion is 
> unrolled, and if I have more than one type to run this on, I 
> already have an "innerloop" label defined.
>
> Is there a way to define a label using a mixin or something? or 
> do I have to wrap this in a function?
>
> Is there another way to approach this?
>
> -Steve

Unfortunately mixin does not support labels so I don't think you 
can do what you want to do.

Kind of surprised me tbh