While loops and accompanying features about n-lang HOT 6 CLOSED

It might also be nice to be able to use continue and break in expressions, such as

let wow = if something > 3 {
  break
} else {
  2 + whatever
}

We could have a special case for while true loops:

import times

let pub main = [] -> cmd[int] {
  while true {
    times.sleep(100)!
    print("Hi")
  }
}

where if a function returns while true without using break, then no return statement is needed afterwards. Either that or we could also add a loop statement for while true situations. We can also prohibit (or just warn about) while true without break inside non-async functions since it's probably a bug

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We also presumably should allow continue and break inside for loops?

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We also presumably should allow continue and break inside for loops?

Yes.

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For

let wow = if something > 3 {
  break
} else {
  2 + whatever
}

Would that make wow a maybe[int]?

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Well, either wow is never assigned at all because the loop broke, or it gets set to 2 + whatever, making it an int

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Closed as of #164

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