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Replies for: I've written plenty of loops that would look a lot worse if I had to write them without break statements. For example, this code to look for possib...

 
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Dan Homola •

I agree the loop would look worse. However, in this case all you are doing is finding the first piece and if it's white calling a method, right?

So you could do something like

const pieceIndex = findFirstPiece(row);
if (pieceIndex > 0 && is_white_piece(pieceIndex , column))
  GENERATE_MOVE;
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where the findFirstPiece would find the first row value that is either a white or a black piece, returning -1 if no such value was found.

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tbodt •

Oops, I pasted the code wrong. What I wanted to do was generate every move from the current position of the rook up to a piece, and including the piece if the piece is a black piece. See updated post.