>
>
> Fabien is pressed for time, so I've been speaking with him out-of-thread
> about how I should go about implementing it.
>
> The v1 patch will be \if <expr>, \elseif <expr>, \else, \endif, where
> <expr> will be naively evaluated via ParseVariableBool().
>
> \ifs and \endifs must be in the same "file" (each MainLoop will start a
> new if-stack). This is partly for sanity (you can see the pairings unless
> the programmer is off in \gset meta-land), partly for ease of design (data
> structures live in MainLoop), but mostly because it would an absolute
> requirement if we ever got around to doing \while.
>
> I hope to have something ready for the next commitfest.
>
> As for the fate of \quit_if, I can see it both ways. On the one hand,
> it's super-simple, already written, and handy.
>
> On the other hand, it's easily replaced by
>
> \if <expr>
> \q
> \endif
>
>
> So I'll leave that as a separate reviewable patch.
>
> As for loops, I don't think anyone was pushing for implementing \while
> now, only to have a decision about what it would look like and how it would
> work. There's a whole lot of recording infrastructure (the input could be a
> stream) needed to make it happen. Moreover, I think \gexec scratched a
> lot of the itches that would have been solved via a psql looping structure.
>
And here's the patch. I've changed the subject line and will be submitting
a new entry to the commitfest.