• mike <vertex gmx.at> Jul 06 2007
• mike <vertex gmx.at> Jul 06 2007
• janderson <askme me.com> Jul 06 2007
• BCS <BCS pathlink.com> Jul 06 2007

mike <vertex gmx.at> writes:

Hi!

Don't know if that makes any sense or if it would be of any use, but I had an
idea lately and wanted to share it here, maybe it's some little thing that
could be nice in D.

So here we go:

' foreach (customer; customerList)
' {
'     foo(customer);
'     scope(failure) foo_rollback(customer);
'
'     bool ok = check_valid_after_foo(customer);
'     if (!ok) continue(failure);
'
'     commit(customer);
' }

Basically the idea is to trigger the appropriate scope guards when a break or
continue occurs. Another thing where this could be handy is in situations where
you loop over an array to search for a specific item and do something when it
is found, like:

' foreach (customer; customerList)
' {
'     scope(success) result = customer;
'     if (customer.ID == wantedID) break(success);
' }

What do you think?

-mike

mike <vertex gmx.at> writes:

Wasn't aware that I was viewing D.announce ... sorry. Is it possible to move
this post?

janderson <askme me.com> writes:

mike wrote:
 Wasn't aware that I was viewing D.announce ... sorry. Is it possible to move
this post?


It your using a newsreader you should be able to cancel (some 
newsreaders work with the DEL key) your post and resend it.

BCS <BCS pathlink.com> writes:

mike wrote:
 Hi!
 
 Don't know if that makes any sense or if it would be of any use, but I had an
idea lately and wanted to share it here, maybe it's some little thing that
could be nice in D.
 
 So here we go:
 
 ' foreach (customer; customerList)
 ' {
 '     foo(customer);
 '     scope(failure) foo_rollback(customer);
 '
 '     bool ok = check_valid_after_foo(customer);
 '     if (!ok) continue(failure);
 '
 '     commit(customer);
 ' }
 
 Basically the idea is to trigger the appropriate scope guards when a break or
continue occurs. Another thing where this could be handy is in situations where
you loop over an array to search for a specific item and do something when it
is found, like:
 
 ' foreach (customer; customerList)
 ' {
 '     scope(success) result = customer;
 '     if (customer.ID == wantedID) break(success);
 ' }
 
 What do you think?
 
 -mike


[posted in D and D.announce NG, please reply in D ng]

This is much like an idea I had, but backwards from the way I thought of 
it. Add more options to scope, not break/continue.

the second code example would work like this the way I thought of.

' foreach (customer; customerList)
' {
'     scope(break) result = customer;
'     if (customer.ID == wantedID) break;
' }


other scope "types":
goto            // exit by goto
goto : label    // exit by goto to a given label
continue        // duh
enter           // execute on entrance by any means (goto, switch, etc.)
out             // used in a loop same as exit but for scope including
                 // loop. Note: scope(exit) in a loop runs on each cycle,
                 // 'out' would only run at the end of the last cycle.