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From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever!
Date: 2000/04/06
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> ...I support continue <label>
> and break <label> where the label is on a block, preferably at both
> the beginning and the end.  GoTo <label> is a much too general
> substitute.

Label:
  loop
  ....
  continue label;

is surely less error-prone than the goto equivalent, but
I see no reason to add

   break Label;

when it has no practical difference from

   exit Label;

And allowing case branches to flow into each other when 
one forgets to "break" would be very foolish.

-- 
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau