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From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever!
Date: 2000/04/07
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Wes Groleau wrote:

> > ...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

ummm....
The reason that I used the break/continue pairing is that they exist as a
pair in C.  Of course "exit label" has the same meaning (and the meaning
of the word exit more nearly approaches the meaning of the use as a
programming construct).  I'm not particularly fond of the word "continue"
rather than "recycle" or "next" either, which both seem to carry a better
semantic mapping to the intended use, but in the language that I was
drawing from the pairing is break/continue.