Efficient convenience methods for IfThenElseBlock, LoopBlock

Trevor Harmon — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:56:17 -0000

In IfThenElseBlock, there is no obvious mechanism for checking whether it has an "else" part. The only way is to check whether getSubBlocks() returns an array of length 1 or 2, but that allocates memory on every call. That's why it would be nice to have the following method added to IfThenElseBlock:

public boolean hasElse() {
return elseBlock != null;
}

Along those same lines, you can't obtain a handle to a LoopBlock's body without allocating memory (on each call to getSubBlocks()). Therefore, it would be nice to have the following method in LoopBlock.java:

public StructuredBlock getBody() {
return bodyBlock;
}

Thanks!

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Efficient convenience methods for IfThenElseBlock, LoopBlock