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Date: 14 Jan 92 22:16:58 GMT
From: cochiti.lanl.gov!jlg@lanl.gov  (Jim Giles)
Subject: Re: Ada statement
Message-ID: <1992Jan14.221658.7468@beta.lanl.gov>
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In article <1992Jan14.204928.21571@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, willett@cbnewsl.cb.att.
com (david.c.willett) writes:
|> [...]
|> 	You can use the NULL statement as one alternative of a conditonal
|> 	accept, or as an alternative in a conditonal.  In both cases, it
|> 	would be analogous to the FORTRAN  or C "continue".

The Fortran continue and the C continue do completely different things.
In Fortran, continue does nothing and is a convenient place to hang
a statement label.  In C, a continue statement causes the rest of the
innermost loop to be skipped and for the next pass of the loop to begin
(ie. the "cycle" statement in some languages).  The C feature which 
resembles a Fortran continue is ";" - the NULL statement - same as 
Ada.


J. Giles