From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?
Date: 1998/09/03
Date: 1998-09-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6skp71$244$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 35ECD5FD.5F53@atlas.otago.ac.nz
In article <35ECD5FD.5F53@atlas.otago.ac.nz>,
ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz wrote:
> alan walkington wrote:
> >
> > Robert T. Sagris wrote in message <35EA8153.7BFC91E3@physics.purdue.edu>...
> > >I was wondering if there is a general way of implementing
> > >the behavior of C's continue statement in Ada.
> >
> > As you have seen from the responses, the answer is NO.
>
> Clearly I have missed some responses.
> What exactly is wrong with
> - Robert Dewar's suggestion of using 'goto', or
> - my suggestion of using a nested named block and named exits?
> Both suggestions "implement the behaviour", which is skipping the
> rest of the body of the loop.
> Is it the fact that you have to invent names,
> which you do not in C?
> Is it the fact that these translations are _too_ powerful,
> handling multi-level exit, which the C version does not?
>
Quite a bit is wrong with "my suggestion of using a nested named
block and named exit", namely neither Ada 95 nor Ada 83 permit
exiting from a named block!
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1998-08-31 0:00 ` How to implement a continue statement in Ada? Norman H. Cohen
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Robert T. Sagris
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-01 0:00 ` alan walkington
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-02 0:00 ` alan walkington
1998-09-03 0:00 ` dewarr [this message]
1998-08-31 0:00 Robert T. Sagris
1998-09-01 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-09-01 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-03 0:00 ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-09-03 0:00 ` dennison
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2000-02-08 0:00 Oliver Kellogg
2000-02-08 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Oliver Kellogg
2000-02-09 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Roger Barnett
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