Control Flow

AzLang utilizes significant whitespace and indentation (4 spaces per level) to organize execution blocks cleanly, avoiding noisy curly braces or verbose block delimiters.

1. Conditional Branching (if, elif, else)

Conditional statements evaluate boolean expressions to branch execution paths:

const int value = 42

if value == 0
    write(Stdout, "Value is zero\n", 14)
elif value > 0
    write(Stdout, "Value is positive\n", 18)
else
    write(Stdout, "Value is negative\n", 18)

2. While Loops (while)

The while loop continuously executes an indented statement block as long as the condition remains true:

var int i = 0

while i < 10
    i = i + 1

3. Infinite Loops (loop)

For continuous polling, kernel event pumps, or server request loops, use the bare loop construct:

loop
    // execution body
    if should_stop
        break

4. Iteration (for .. in)

AzLang supports iterating through lists and collections:

const list<int> items = [10, 20, 30]

for items in item
    // use item

5. Loop Control Statements

• break: Terminate the loop immediately.
• continue: Skip the rest of the current iteration and proceed to the next cycle.