'while/else' (ugh) (was Re: [oclug] Ruby)

[Rod Giffin]

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 19:14, Francis J. A. Pinteric wrote:
> On 27 Jun 2003 18:35:13 -0400
> Rod Giffin <rod at giffinscientific.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Remember this is an imaginary syntax for an imaginary language. 
> 
> It's not as speculative as you think ...

:) Good!  lol.

> >
> > I'm not talking about what you can do in C, or C++, Java or whatnot,
> > I'm speculating about something new.
> > 
> 
> In the speculative language under discussion, the code above the above
> code would be written:
> 
> while condition:
> 	do some instructions
> finally
> 	do some stuff
> end


How does it tell if the while loop iterated?  Wait a minute.  The
finally block could run whether or not the while runs, giving me a
chance to catch a condition I didn't predict, can't it.  So it becomes a
bit like a try { } catch { } finally { }  block in Java, only with the
exception handling inside of the finally along side any cleanup code,
instead of in a separate catch statement.  What the heck, I could live
with that.

Rod.