Req #76841 [Com]: simple breaking structure for better code.

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76841&edit=1 ID: 76841 Comment by: leon at valkenb dot org Reported by: leon at valkenb dot org Summary: simple breaking structure for better code. Status: Wont fix Type: Feature/Change Request Package: *General Issues PHP Version: Next Minor Version Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: do..while works yes, but the statements do not reflect the purpose of the code. In my opinion the language fails as soon as you execute up in basic procedural code. Or the language statements don't reflect the purpose in which they were used. do..while and for imply that there is something that needs to be done more than once. switch implies there is a single condition that has multiple options. No matter what others i'm missing, you know that it's not going to reflect the intent of the developer in this situation. And ill iterate, i hate goto, not my life. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-09-13 20:24:08] leon at valkenb dot org Not a function. A function has to be placed somewhere else in the code. And a nested function needs to be called after the declaration. Both of these require developers to have to leave the simple procedure that are reading, then find this function, then read it, then go back to the code. This is easy enough to do, but i can attribute hours per week of my time doing this. For some really really basic shit too. I don't hate my life, but i do hate the goto statement. So this is the combination of both. All i want a super simple bit of procedural code to be just as simple to read. I could also do the same logic with nested if statements or other logic. But all of this, as basic as it is, is still overkill. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-09-04 23:40:17] requinix@php.net do..while(false) is a common idiom across all programming languages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-09-04 23:28:22] chx@php.net This is called a function. http://php.net/manual/en/functions.user-defined.php function foobar() { if (!check1()) { return; } if (!check2()) { return; } baz(); } You could also throw exceptions etc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-09-04 23:23:23] leon at valkenb dot org Description: ------------ I'd like to see something like this in PHP (and all languages) procedure{ // Check simple statement if ($a = $b){ break; } // Check complex statement if ( ($a != $b) && ($c > $b) ) { break; } // All checks succeed. Do something. something(); } I write a good amount of code, and one of the annoyng things is not being able to simply create a process that can be broken out of without a loop. Often i will use a switch / case, but this is not a tidy solution since there is oten no requirement for a case. Test script: --------------- procedure{ // or could be just proc. I couldn't think of a better word // Check simple statement if ($a = $b){ break; } // Check complex statement if ( ($a != $b) && ($c > $b) ) { break; } // All checks succeed. Do something. print "Hello" } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76841&edit=1