Custom control flow statements
Michiel
nomail at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 13 10:16:50 PST 2007
> However, any syntactic sugar like this needs to be very carefully
> thought out. Consider the following:
>
> void a()
> {
> writefln("starting");
>
> {
> scope(exit) writefln("blah");
> }
> }
>
> This is valid code and there are many times where something like this is
> needed. Unfortunately, if we implement what you suggest, then the
> second block would get convereted to a delegate and passed as a variadic
> argument to writefln!
I think the semicolon would be in the way. I don't think this syntactic sugar is
in conflict with any existing syntax. You can never create a function with the
name 'scope' or 'for' or 'if', so there's no problem there either.
Or am I missing something?
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