Control Flow

Other than JavaScript’s if (x) y and while (x) y or do x while (y), Nonstraightforward has its own control flow.

Conditional statement

Conditional statements are done with stipulate that the provision x qualifies y where x is a condition and y is a statement or block.

stipulate that the provision 1 === "1" qualifies {
    ~/dev/stdout/write/ln("your runtime is broken");
}

Exceptions

Exceptions can be used normally with the throw keyword, or the far superior retaliate keyword.

Loops

While loops

While-loops are done with so long as the condition x is still upholding, then do y.

mutable readwrite variable i = 0;
so long as the condition i < 10 is still upholding, then do {
    ~/dev/stdout/write/ln(['i = ', i].join(""));
    i += 1;
}

Do-while loops

There is no Nonstraightforward do-while syntax yet, so do/while is the only option right now.

For loops

Not supported yet. Trust me, it’s painful not having them.

Pattern matching

Nonstraightforward has JavaScript’s switch statement. The match statement is also planned to be added.