Aaron Sherman wrote:
> > Er, what?!? Who said we're dropping "until"? Did I miss something?
>
> Well, if there's no while (replaced by generic "loop", per Apoc4) why
> would there be an until?
As Aaron himself has discovered, neither C<while> nor C<until> is being
dropped from Perl 6.
Incidently, even C<do {...} while ...> is still allowed. We're just changing
its semantics slightly (it no longer iterates once before the conditional
check) so that it's consistent with the rest of Perl 6.
> Ok, once more for those in the cheap seats (no offense, it's just a lot
> of people seemed to have ignored the thread until now and jumped in
> without the context), this is how we got here:
>
> 1. Larry says loops will have "ELSE blocks" inside them.
No, Allison said that. And she was wearing her Devil's Advocate hat at the time.
> So, the answer to your question is: yes, I do propose that there should
> be an elsif, elsloop and elsfor. That's it. Three words, not an
> expansive list of ever-more-complex words.
....and 'elswhile'. *Four* words: 'elsif', 'elsloop', 'elsfor', 'elswhile', and
'elsuntil'. *Five* words...
*No-one* expects the Spanish Inquisition!
;-)
Damian
