Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:51:36 -0500 |
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:32:01 GMT, Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> said: > commence Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu quotation: > > > The real problem is that C doesn't have a good multi-level "break" > > construct. On the other hand, I don't know of any language that has > > a good one - some allow "break 3;" to break 3 levels- but that's > > still bad because you get screwed if somebody adds an 'if' > > clause.... > > Perl's facility for labelling blocks and jumping to the beginning or > end with 'next' and 'last' may be close to what you want, but I don't > know if it's ever been implemented in a language one could sensibly > use to write a kernel.
Hmm.. I'm not a Perl wizard.. <reads the docs> Yeah, that's what I meant, and no, that's not a sane kernel language. ;) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |