help, any ideas how to implement this?

# announcements

[iex]

help, any ideas how to implement this?

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[ribesg]

Can you edit this message and put everything else you posted here in it please? You’re writting in a channel with more than 25k people, we try not to spam

[ribesg]

For your question, you named your function repeatWhile , it would see logical to me to use a function returning a Boolean instead

[iex]

let me edit the name, this is outdated

[iex]

How can I exit the loop?

[ribesg]

if (!f()) break

[ribesg]

Or if (f()) break , whatever

[iex]

is there no way to be able to exit it similar to what I did?

[iex]

the reason I don't want to use return is a bit discussable. But curious in any case

[ribesg]

You can’t make a passed parameter know the label of a basic for-loop

[ribesg]

Ok, you could use a more complex solution. You could define a class which would manage the loop. This class would be the receiver of f and have a function to stop the loop

[iex]

the label isn't really the problem though. If I remove it it says "break" can't jump across a function or class boundary

[iex]

hmm that might work

[iex]

okay thanks. At leat I know now what's possible and what's not 🙂

[iex]

btw it's not possible to force a return statement in a closure to apply only for the closure and not the enclosing function right?

[Marat Akhin]

For that you can use labeled return: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/returns.html#return-at-labels

[iex]

great thanks!

[Stephan Schroeder]

how about the function you want to retry returns if it was successful (and therefore doesn’t need further retries):

fun retry(maxTimes: Int, f: () -> Boolean) {
    for (index in 0 until maxTimes) {
        val wasSuccessful = f()
        if(wasSuccessful) break
    }
}

[iex]

I think this was already suggested in the thread, but I wanted to exit early in the block

[darkmoon_uk]

@iex This is pure noise, no idea what you are even asking. Please explain your problems/questions better in future.

[iex]

@darkmoon_uk did you expand the message? 🤔 not a poster-child question, but it seems fairly understandable.

[iex]

I also find there are better ways to communicate what you're saying. "Pure noise" isn't accurate and unnecessarily confrontational.