[GROOVY-5183] It would be Groovy if postfix conditionals were available like in Perl

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 4.x
• Component/s: syntax
• Environment: any
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: ericksn
• Created: 10/Dec/11 11:18
• Updated: 02/May/17 02:24

Description

I would be nice if Groovy supported Perl's postfix conditionals.
This is something I really miss from Perl.
In Perl you can supply a boolean condition to the loop control next, last or redo statements.
In Groovy it would be cool if we could do the same with continue or break.
small example

while (some condition) {
     if (condition) continue
     if (another_condition) break
}

example using postfix loop control

while (some condition) {
     continue if condition
     break if another_condition
}

or

LABEL:
while (some condition) {
     continue LABEL if condition
     break LABEL if another_condition
}