Re: [Csnd-dev] break and continue

+1 to implicit break.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM Rory Walsh <[email protected]> wrote:
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> +1
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> On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 at 12:54, Eduardo Moguillansky <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Eduardo
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>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM Victor Lazzarini <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> 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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