Re: [Vala] Request for new keyword "nobreak"

[Sam Wilson <tecywiz121 hotmail com>]

I thought it might be too convenient.  Treating continue in a switch statement like a continue in a nested 
loop (the inner loop/switch is 'continued', without effecting the outer loop) would probably break a lot of 
things.

"Nelson, Jim" <jim yorba org> wrote:

> continue can be used when a switch statement is embedded inside a loop.
>
> -- Jim
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Sam Wilson <tecywiz121 hotmail com>
> wrote:
> Why not something like continue?
>
> "Nelson, Jim" <jim yorba org> wrote:
> Apparently this is possible in C# with the "goto case <label>" syntax:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/174155/switch-statement-fallthrough-in-c
>
> Doesn't work in Vala, however.
>
> I'm not advocating for switch-case fallthrough, but C# was able to
> provide it without reserving another keyword.
>
> -- Jim
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
> <frm member fsf org> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am new to this list. Please let me know if I post in the wrong place.
>
>
> A long time ago I tried case fallthrough in Vala.
> It didn't work as in C, so I wrote that special code in C and the rest
> in
> Vala.
>
> In stead of forbidding case fallthrough all together, I believe a good
> compromise would be to implement a new keyword, nobreak, solely for
> this
> purpose.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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