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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever!
Date: 2000/03/22
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In article <38D8DFC2.778826FB@cadence.com>,
  Paul Graham <pgraham@cadence.com> wrote:

> Why is there no 'continue' statement in Ada?  You've shown
> that the function of 'continue' is desirable.

Yes, the *function* of continue is desirable, but on the other
hand a continue is indeed a goto, so why not say so? That's the
other point of view, and as you see from the previous post,
some people find it clearer to use a goto here. We did discuss
this in the language revision but there was insufficient
support for this language addition.

I guess the burden here is to explain why the goto formulation
is so horrible. Yes, it slightly discourages this control flow
form, but that's probably a good idea, if you can avoid exit's
and continue's in loops without doing damage to the code that's
a good idea.


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