Hmm? I think you think I meant that `loop` should accept a condition in
front of the loop, like `while`? In fact my idea was sillier: just replace
all instances of `while foo { bar }` with
loop {
if !foo { break }
bar
}
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Benjamin Striegel
<[email protected]>wrote:
> > This is an even sillier idea, but then what about keeping `loop` and
> dropping `while`?
>
> I'm not sure this is possible to disambiguate in the grammar. You'd have
> to be able to tell the difference between the infinite form:
>
> loop <block>
>
> ...and the conditional form:
>
> loop <expr> <block>
>
> ...while keeping in mind that <expr> can also be a <block>.
>
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