[J3] [EXTERNAL] [BULK] Re: A couple more ideas for features

[Brad Richardson]

Yeah, not saying it wouldn't work. Just from a language design point of view, if feels naked and a bit unintuitive as far as does it control the statements before or after? At least to a new comer to the language.

On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 13:55 -0700, Van Snyder via J3 wrote:

> On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 15:22 +0000, Brad Richardson via J3 wrote:
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>> I'm open to suggestions for exact syntax of the ending conditionals
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> At least one language, I don't remember which one, allowed WHILE(...) at the beginning and UNTIL(...) at the end of the same construct.
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> R1123 (loop-control) would remain unchanged.
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> R1134 (end-do-stmt) would have
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> or UNTIL ( scalar-logical-expr ) [ do-construct-name ]
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> added
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