On 10/11/2014 7:22 AM, Rick McGuire wrote: > Right now, I'm thinking I quite like Walter's suggestion of using WITH > as the keyword. I think it should be possible to also make the second > variable optional, which would make is similar to DO OVER, but not > necessarily identical, because the single variable will either be always > an index or always a value, where DO OVER assignments are determined by > what the OVER object returns for MAKEARRAY. > > Rick
I would like "with" to be reserved for something like a resource that needs to be setup and torn down. That is how this instruction is currently used in other languages. Using it for what is proposed will be just another quirk to ooRexx and make it harder for people who might be switching from another language. Here are some examples: -- file is closed do file with handle -- file is opened char = handle~charin(1) end -- file is closed Exact syntax I am not sure of but the basic idea being that "file" would be some arguments defining file path and open type. The "handle" being the variable you can reference in the do block. This could also make working with semaphores, sockets, and who knows what else easier, too. Have you given some thought to just defining an iterator class and making the "over" instruction only handle iterators? I have generally assumed that supplier is suppose to be the closest thing in ooRexx that is similar to that. Something to think about since you are wanting to redefine how "over" works. -- Brandon Cherry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
