[Serusers] drop and brake in ser.cfg

[Weiter Leiter]

break appeared early in SER; so, it remained.
drop is a tad newer (?) and probably appeared in the tradition of packet
filtering naming. there is also the more intuitive "exit" alternative to it.
there is also a "return" alternative for break.

WL.

On 8/6/07, SIP <sip at arcdiv.com> wrote:
>
> Weiter Leiter wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 8/6/07, *tzieleniewski* <tzieleniewski at o2.pl
> > <mailto:tzieleniewski at o2.pl>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     Is there any difference in the brake and drop command behavior in
> >     ser.cfg??
> >
> >
> > break stops execution of current route, resuming the next outer one
> > (if any), from where the current was invoked.
> > drop stops execution of script.
> >
> > WL.
> I'm assuming these are SER 2.0 commands?
>
> Is it possible to have come up with even more convoluted and
> non-intuitive names? Perhaps "frog" and "bunny"  or "seratonin" and
> "cuisinart" ?  I mean, why stop with 'brake,' which is so close to being
> 'break' (the command one usually uses in a programming setting to escape
> a loop) and yet... isn't. Or drop... which really doesn't imply to me
> 'stop execution' as much as it implies ignore an incoming connection...
> or perhaps delete a table.
>
> N.
>



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