Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <87pgm3$o3p$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Oliver Kellogg <okellogg@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <6smb7v$j39$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   dennison@telepath.com wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Then again, I have never needed goto for other than
> emulating "continue". So I see this as an exceptional case.
>
> I hereby cast my vote for introducing the "continue"
> keyword in Ada-0x

Hmmm. That quote sounded like me, but I don't exactly share that
sentiment. A quick deja search shows that I posted that back on
September 3, 1998. I realize that at the time no one called me on the
statement, but I think the statue of limitations on arguing the point
with me has long since passed. :-)

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.

As you can see, my opinion has changed slightly over the intervening 1.4
years. Apparently I've written a lot of loops since then. :-)

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