[Grace-core] Assignment return values and null

[Michael Homer]

On Jun 27, 2012 1:06 AM, "Jan Larres" <jan at majutsushi.net> wrote:
> Just in case my original message wasn't quite clear, I wasn't looking
> for the most theoretically elegant solution just for myself, I was
> trying to figure out a simple, straightforward way for the language
> target audience of beginning students.
> I'm not sure I would call this "nice" -- in my opinion it mainly
> demonstrates that there's a real need for proper break/continue
> statements in Grace. Passing around and applying 'break' blocks would
> most likely seem pretty arbitrary to beginners.
>
> Thanks for the input! Given how the language currently works your ideas
> are certainly reasonable. I just think that there should be more
> straight-forward ways of doing this, considering what the actual goal of
> the language is.
It should obviously be an iterator, but only character iteration is
implemented at the moment. Returning a variant type would be sensible for
the manual case.
-Michael
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