Re: [Csnd-dev] break and continue

+1

On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 at 12:54, Eduardo Moguillansky <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Csound being mostly used by non-professional programmers, simplicity and
> terseness are probably more important than compliance. In that sense, an
> implicit break seems better: we spare the need of a break line for every
> case and also avoid unwanted fall-through mistakes.
>
> Eduardo
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> On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM Victor Lazzarini <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> with thanks to @scottsitar we now have break and continue in while,
>> until, and
>> for loops.
>>
>> What we’d like to discuss here now is how switch should be handled. At the
>> moment, switch has an implicit break. This means it cannot be used in
>> fall-through
>> scenarios (as far as I can see). Discussing briefly this in the PR we
>> considered two
>> options:
>>
>> (a) modify switch to take an explicit break (like in C)
>> (b) add a fall-through statement (like in go)
>>
>> The advantage of (a) is that we don’t need a new keyword and we are in
>> line with
>> the most common approach (?). The advantage of (b) is that no user-level
>> changes
>> to switch are needed.
>>
>> I have no preference myself. Would be interesting to hear opinions.
>>
>> best
>> ========================
>> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
>> Maynooth University
>> Ireland
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