Conditional Commands

As of 0.9.10 Enkaidu supports conditional continuation commands that start with a ?.

Conditional commands are intended for use within macros since they allow a macro to exit pre-maturely based on conditions.

Macros are sequences of queries that were executed in order, and nested calls to macros were inserted at the call site and then executed in sequence. Until now we did not have a way for a macro to ask a model to do some work and then test for that.

Using the new ?break with if... or unless... conditional commands macros can now make branching decisions, allowing them to exit a macro earlier in its query sequence.

As of 0.9.11, conditional commands are also used to exit blocks — nested groups of queries within a macro, started with the <enter> key (see Macros). A ?break line inside a block exits that block early, skipping any remaining nested queries, while execution continues with the query following the block.