Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?

[Jeff Carter <jrcarter010@earthlink.net>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> Given that such workarounds (hacks) exist, why not put continue
> capability in Ada 0X by allowing the "exit" statement to exit outside of
> a begin..end block? The fact that you can't do this is actually a common
> confusion for newbies anyway.

Of course, there is a horrible way to do this already:

loop
   declare
      Continue : exception;
   begin
      ...
      raise Continue; -- Also known as the continue statement
      ...
   exception
   when Continue =>
      null;
   end;
end loop;

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Jeff Carter
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