From: Henry Maddocks <hmaddocks@...>
Date: 2012-11-17T12:33:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Alternatives to methods for large number of nested "ifs"


On 17/11/2012, at 11:41 AM, sto.mar@web.de wrote:

> Am 16.11.2012 23:30, schrieb Henry Maddocks:
>> 
>> On 17/11/2012, at 7:15 AM, Brian Candler wrote:
>> 
>>> But if you must keep it within the same scope (lots of local variables
>>> as you say, that you don't want to pass as arguments), then throw/catch
>>> is another option.
>>> 
>>> lots of code
>>> .
>>> .
>>> catch(:done) do
>>>  throw :done unless ...
>>>  some lines of code
>>>  throw :done unless ...
>>>  some lines of code
>>> end
>> 
>> 
>> Don't use exceptions for flow control.
>> 
>> Henry
> 
> But throw/catch has nothing to do with exceptions.

Sorry, language context switch failure. 

Henry