Re: A question re meaning/use of the "for ... use ..."

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@baesystems.com> wrote:
: Clearly this is a lot less important than extra libraries, interfaces, etc.
: but I have wondered this before myself and I think it would improve program
: readability quite a bit.

As for "when expression" everywhere, I do not think so.

In
  exit when expression

it is quite clear what is going to happen when expression is true.

In
  return expression when expression

the second expression might be off the radar when you read
  return expression.
In fact, I've used this kind of syntactical arrangement a lot in Perl
programs and was told not to do so. I think this was good advice.
Reading "return E when E" requires a lot of "conditional shuffling"
and "reading back". Worse, you could write

  if expression then
    return expression when expression

ending up with a well hidden multiple exit problem due to TIMTOWTDI.
(I hope I have not repeated the Ada comments arguments.)


-- Georg