From: Dirk Detering <detering@...>
Date: 2002-07-09T17:03:36+09:00
Subject: Re: for ... else ... end

Yukihiro Matsumoto schrieb:
> But I don't feel "for .. else" is intuitive.  

Yes, indeed. It is semantically very different to 
the 'else' in an 'if' construct an does not support
natural language feelings.

> The "else" seem like
> indentation mistake rather than loop termination hook.  

Yes, this too :-) .

> Maybe there can be a more suitable keyword.

What about:

for i in (1..10)
   # ... some code here
passed
   # ... the no-break-received branch here
end


Bye
Det