#msdyn365bc It looks like AL is soon enhanced with the continue keyword 🤫 github.com/microsoft/AL... - ThreadSky

nataliekarolak.bsky.social • 81 days ago

#msdyn365bc It looks like AL is soon enhanced with the continue keyword 🤫
https://github.com/microsoft/AL/issues/7928#issuecomment-2529088784

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rimmelzwaan.bsky.social•80 days ago

Not sure what that adds.... Why would we need a command to continue to the next line of code? If the purpose is to be able to exit the current iteration, why not call it 'exitloop' or something? I guess I don't understand why we'd need this

nataliekarolak.bsky.social•80 days ago

As I understood, continue is comparable to a CurrReprt.Skip for all kinds of loops. It does not end the loop, but skips the current iteration.

rimmelzwaan.bsky.social•80 days ago

Makes sense to follow suit if a bunch of other programming languages use 'continue' but it doesn't feel like the right word to me. I'd definitely like to have the ability to skip, and I guess whatever word they use to accomplish that I would learn to use it

arthurvdv.bsky.social•81 days ago

lucvandyck.bsky.social•81 days ago

I don't feel the excitement yet ...

nataliekarolak.bsky.social•81 days ago

You don't code loops that often?

lucvandyck.bsky.social•81 days ago

All the time

davmac1.bsky.social•81 days ago

Great addition.
It will improve our code.
We will be able to use positive conditions to make our code friendlier.
If condition true
Continue
Else
Do some other processing.

nataliekarolak.bsky.social•80 days ago

The "continue" keyword has now been added to the pre-release version of the AL language (v15.x).

Known issue: It might break your existing code.
https://github.com/Microsoft/AL/issues/7930

mrabus.bsky.social•80 days ago

I like the new Keyword but breaking existing code is not nice :-/

nataliekarolak.bsky.social•80 days ago

Don't worry, this will be fixed soon (likely by considering the runtime in the app.json).

manukau.bsky.social•80 days ago

Just seen it mentioned in the AL Language extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central change log amongst other good things.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/ms-dynamics-smb.al/changelog

pi.bc.ht•81 days ago

Are you Santa Claus in disguise? 🤶

I'm sure it will cause less buzz than the ternary operator even though it's 10x more useful…
Thanks BazookaMusic!

thatbcguy.bsky.social•80 days ago

Nice. But you can also do this to avoid using continue:

If CheckConditions() then
RunProcess();

nataliekarolak.bsky.social•80 days ago

Do you also avoid exit statements in procedures?

I'm glad continue is coming to improve code readability.

thatbcguy.bsky.social•80 days ago

I don’t think there is a pattern to avoid exit statement. Is there?

I like that we now have ‘continue’ as an option. But having multiple continue statements in a single loop can decrease readability in my opinion.

nataliekarolak.bsky.social•80 days ago

Circumvent exit:

If condition then
LongRestOfProcedure

thatbcguy.bsky.social•80 days ago

In a loop, you cannot avoid using “exit” to exit the loop, right?

nataliekarolak.bsky.social•80 days ago

No, but that's not what I meant. Continue will skip the rest of a loop iteration and jump right into the next iteration.
Using "if" here instead (just like we do today) is comparable to avoiding exit in procedures.

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