Useful alternative control structures?

Question

Sometimes when I am programming, I find that some particular control structure would be very useful to me, but is not directly available in my programming language. I think my

Answer 1

I'd like to see a keyword for grouping output. Instead of this:

        int lastValue = 0;

        foreach (var val in dataSource)
        {
            if (lastValue != val.CustomerID)
            {                    
                WriteFooter(lastValue);
                WriteHeader(val);
                lastValue = val.CustomerID;
            }
            WriteRow(val);
        }
        if (lastValue != 0)
        {
            WriteFooter(lastValue);
        }

how about something like this:

        foreach(var val in dataSource)
        groupon(val.CustomerID)
        {            
            startgroup
            {
                WriteHeader(val);
            }
            endgroup
            {
                WriteFooter(val)
            }
        }
        each
        {
            WriteRow(val);
        }

If you have a decent platform, controls, and/or reporting formatting you won't need to write this code. But it's amazing how often I find myself doing this. The most annoying part is the footer after the last iteration - it's hard to do this in a real life example without duplicating code.