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

Robin Sommer robin at icir.org
Tue Feb 17 08:19:54 PST 2015


For the record: I'm for it, too. :)

Will merge.

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 22:14 -0600, you wrote:

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>      [ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1315?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
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> Seth Hall updated BIT-1315:
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> Let’s go ahead and merge it then. :)
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> > 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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