[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1315) Teach Bro how to 'while'
Seth Hall (JIRA)
jira at bro-tracker.atlassian.net
Fri Feb 13 13:31:01 PST 2015
[ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1315?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Seth Hall updated BIT-1315:
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Agreed. I’ve had the same debate with myself plenty of times.
Yeah. It would remove some pretty hacky looking code in scripts too.
I guess I could see adding it. I’ll be updating a few scripts if it does end up going into master. :)
.Seth
> Teach Bro how to 'while'
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>
> 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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