[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1315) Teach Bro how to 'while'

Jon Siwek (JIRA) jira at bro-tracker.atlassian.net
Fri Feb 13 09:46:00 PST 2015


     [ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1315?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jon Siwek updated BIT-1315:
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    Status: Merge Request  (was: Open)

> Teach Bro how to 'while'
> ------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIT-1315
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1315
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Bro
>            Reporter: Jon Siwek
>            Priority: Low
>             Fix For: 2.4
>
>
> topic/jsiwek/while has an implementation of a general purpose 'while' loop.  If one wants to hack around the current limitation of only looping over collections, they're going to do it (e.g. recursion), so why not just provide a more convenient way instead?  The mess you have to write to work around the limitation may be more error-prone than just providing a simple while loop.
> An alternative to adding 'while' to the language might be to allow "for ()" to be an unbounded loop and force the author to put the necessary break/return conditions in the body.



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