bazel syntax: don't use exceptions for control flow

Second attempt at https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/e114d8a04fe07dd32fee41b3cd2e5794f10a5a9d, rolled back in https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/5d72d4ea54fdcb6e963cacb7181fda847e01bc50
due to breakage of j/c/g/devtools/builddiagnostics/diff/buildtree.

Previously, break, continue, and return were implemented by
throwing and catching exceptions.

Now, the Eval.exec methods return a token to indicate the
continuation: one of PASS, BREAK, CONTINUE, or RETURN.
In addition, the return value is saved in the Eval,
which is good for only one function invocation.

This is simpler (and slightly more efficient).

Also:
- FlowStatement now includes PASS too; PassStatement is gone.
- ReturnException is gone, plus one EvalException constructor.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 263189912
14 files changed
tree: 8ac221d5c079501aa7f6b2e1567ae0bf8d4c7d78
  1. .bazelci/
  2. examples/
  3. scripts/
  4. site/
  5. src/
  6. third_party/
  7. tools/
  8. .bazelrc
  9. .gitattributes
  10. .gitignore
  11. AUTHORS
  12. BUILD
  13. CHANGELOG.md
  14. CODEOWNERS
  15. combine_distfiles.py
  16. combine_distfiles_to_tar.sh
  17. compile.sh
  18. CONTRIBUTING.md
  19. CONTRIBUTORS
  20. distdir.bzl
  21. ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
  22. LICENSE
  23. README.md
  24. WORKSPACE
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