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From: Roger@natron.demon.co.uk (Roger Barnett)
Subject: Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?
Date: 2000/02/09
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In article: <87q53f$6q6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>  Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> 
writes:
> 
> For a post of mine on the subject of slightly more recent vintage, try
> the following, posted less than a month ago under the thread title of
> "Re: bitwise comparators":
> 
> > C's continue statement would be helpful often in my Ada code,
> > but it does make the code tougher to follow.


I've always thought that the C continue statement provides all the
problems of 'goto' but without the clarity  ('break' is almost as bad).

Perhaps if an Ada equivalent required the use of a labelled loop
construct to make it explicit what was being continued ?

-- 
Roger Barnett