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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement?
Date: 1997/09/22
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>Algol-60 did not have this construct ['continue'],
> and the algol family generally followed this
>lead. Pascal for instance has no goto, and the one place you will find
>goto used in Wirth's book on algorithms is precisely for the continue
>construct given above (actually that's not quite true, there is another
>place where he uses it for a break out on an exceptional condition, but
>one would be more likely to use an exception for this purpose in Ada.

Pascal _does_ have a goto.  In fact, the Pascal goto can even take you
out of the current subprogram into one of its (lexical) ancestors.
Note that Algol 60 also didn't have a 'while' statement or a 'case'
statement, yet Pascal had both.

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