Break/Continue/End Trigger

[TeamDman]

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Titop54 [CATS],
OP
— 2026-08-18 2:55 PM
As the name says, it stops the every X do after this keyword is executed

Examples of uses: You have setup that expects 20 items in return, but your setup produces less than 20. Then, you send a block to a chest to activate an alarm with redstone.

On the next loop, you can check if there a block inside the chest for it not to run again, similar to if(a == nullptr) continue; or any other example

Another use it's to stop the loop to run after certain time, for example, processors with Mega and AE2, one uses redstone dusts and the other fluix dusts. You can set that if a chest has redstone do the redstone first and stop until next loop.
Once done with redstone, it would do just do normal mega accumulation recipes

#597

SFM does not yet have a "continue" function to end the execution of the current trigger.

Short-circuit-style statements like

if (something) then break end
-- do logic here

are currently not possible, you must currently instead just guard the logic with the if statement like

if not something then
-- do logic here
end

[TeamDman]

every 20 ticks do
  if condition then break end
  -- do guarded logic here
end

[TeamDman]

every 20 ticks do
  if condition then continue end
  -- do guarded logic here
end

[TeamDman]

I dislike this one more than the others

[TeamDman]

every 20 ticks do
  if condition then skip to end
  -- do guarded logic here
end

[TeamDman]

every 20 ticks do
  skip if condition
  -- do guarded logic here
end

[TeamDman]

Usually if statements have the condition sandwiched with the if .. then keywords, having condition be bare with no terminator keyword may be trickier but I would want more evidence before writing it off as a possibility.

[TeamDman]

#599

[TeamDman]

Titop54 [CATS],
OP
— 4:54 AM
The idea was having to throws an exception :KEKW:
Like what kjs or graaljs do
When you say event.cancel((

exception-based control flow would totally work for this

[TeamDman]

every 20 ticks do
  if condition then stop end
  -- do guarded logic here
end

[TeamDman]

every 20 ticks do
  if condition then halt end
  -- do guarded logic here
end