[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
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> > 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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