10.2.12 Statement Block Symbols

There are a few occasions where a statement block might be used inside an expression. One is in C or C++ code using the gcc extension for this, e.g:

      1: int res = ({
      2:         int y = foo (); int z;
      3:         if (y > 0) z = y; else z = - y;
      4:         z;
      5:     });

Lines 2 and 5 get the inexpr-statement syntax, besides the symbols they'd get in a normal block. Therefore, the indentation put on inexpr-statement is added to the normal statement block indentation. An inexpr-statement syntactic element doesn't contain an anchor position.

In Pike code, there are a few other situations where blocks occur inside statements, as illustrated here:

      1: array itgob()
      2: {
      3:     string s = map (backtrace()[-2][3..],
      4:                     lambda
      5:                         (mixed arg)
      6:                     {
      7:                         return sprintf ("%t", arg);
      8:                     }) * ", " + "\n";
      9:     return catch {
     10:             write (s + "\n");
     11:         };
     12: }

Lines 4 through 8 contain a lambda function, which CC Mode recognizes by the lambda keyword. If the function argument list is put on a line of its own, as in line 5, it gets the lambda-intro-cont syntax. The function body is handled as an inline method body, with the addition of the inlambda syntactic symbol. This means that line 6 gets inlambda and inline-open, and line 8 gets inline-close¹.

On line 9, catch is a special function taking a statement block as its argument. The block is handled as an in-expression statement with the inexpr-statement syntax, just like the gcc extended C example above. The other similar special function, gauge, is handled like this too.