[swift-evolution] Proposal: Replace labels with keywords and "*" suffixes

[Amir Michail]

> On Dec 10, 2015, at 8:20 AM, Kevin Wooten <kdubb at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Curios as to what you see the advantage of this is, over labels? Seems to me it only saves a few keystrokes at the expense of clarity.

What “break" currently does can be unclear. For example, “break” without a label in do {…} doesn’t just break out of the do.

Also, I really don’t like coming up with label names. They tend to be uninteresting.

> 
> Given the stated goals of Swift I don’t imagine this would be an interesting proposal for many.
> 
>> On Dec 10, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> For example:
>> 
>> for* … {
>> for** ... {
>>   for ... {
>>     …
>>     if … { break for* }
>>     ...
>>     if … { continue for** }
>>     ...
>>   }
>> }
>> }
>> 
>> repeat {
>> do {
>>   for … {
>>     if … { break do }
>>     if … { continue repeat }
>>   }
>>   …
>> }
>> } while …
>> 
>> 
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