Block Lambdas: break and continue

[Brendan Eich]

> Grant Husbands <mailto:esdiscuss at grant.x43.net>
> January 15, 2012 3:51 AM
> Brendan Eich wrote:
>> More when I reply to Axel in a bit.
>
> I think there may have been a misunderstanding. My proposed solution
> amounts to syntactic sugar over the existing strawman and makes
> break/continue work intuitively with loopy block lambdas, and your
> reply to Axel appears to be against an exception-based version, but
> you seem to have (implicitly) tied them together.

That's right, because I don't see how your proposal can work without 
exceptions. You write that it is yntactic sugar. Ok, what is the 
desugaring? How does

> for arr.ForEach { |o|
>    if (...) break;
> }
>
> And it still works, without needing to throw exceptions or alter the
> existing library code.
translate into JS without a throw that the implementation of 
arr.forEach, which is not modfiied by this for-prefixed invocation, can 
catch?

/be
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