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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?
Date: 1998/09/03
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In article <35EDD44B.63F2@atlas.otago.ac.nz>,
  ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz wrote:

> I _was_ using Ada a fair bit last year, and readers will realise
> from this that I had never actually _needed_ to emulate C's
> 'continue', or for that matter, multi-level loop exit.

I have used Ada for 9 years now, and have yet to tell myself, "gee, I really
wish I could do a continue". I think this is mostly an issue for C converts.

I' sure there are perfectly legitimate uses for it, but the two times I used
"continue" in C code, I probably shouldn't have.


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