Am 12.10.2015 17:17 schrieb "Dmitry Boyarintsev" <[email protected] >: > About while-then. While the syntax is unlikely to break anything, it's inconsistent with if-statement. > where, if-then is executed when condition is true. > For while-then is executed then condition is false. > Thus, while-else or while-otherwise are better. However, both syntax would cause code incompatibility.
It's less about consistency with if-then, but more about consistency from a human language point of view. "while true do this then that" reads more or less as well as "while true do this otherwise that" (though both carry a slightly different meaning) with the added benefit of the former not to break any existing code (as you had written yourself). Regards, Sven
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