Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?

[Oliver Kellogg <okellogg@my-deja.com>]

In article <87s92d$lj1$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:

> Given that such workarounds (hacks) exist, why not put continue
> capability in Ada 0X by allowing the "exit" statement to exit
> outside of a begin..end block? The fact that you can't do this
> is actually a common confusion for newbies anyway.

A agree wholeheartedly. This should apply to both the
exit and the continue statement.

However, I still think adding a "continue" statement
to Ada is a good idea.

"continue" is complementary to "exit" in nature
and the same syntax rules should apply to both.
E.g. the continue statement could take an optional
loop_designator (just like exit) to make possible
continuing to outer loops in the case of nested loops.

Oliver M. Kellogg
-- okellogg at freenet dot de



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