Re: "continue/next" for "loop"

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de> wrote:
: * Preben Randhol wrote:
:> Links on this:  (Ada, goto and state machine)
: 
: It's not a state machine. It's a "parser" which determine the end of the
: current iteration processing at a much deeper level.

Does it have to be at that low language level, then?
Why not carry abstraction further, adjust data definitions,
so that the spaghetti become more manageable? :-)
"Continue that_loop" denotes something, after all.

In addition,  "Continue that_loop" might have other natural
connotations for other people, for example Perl programmers
might feel that a bare jump to some loop's start is inferior
to something like this:

  loop
      ...
      if condition then
          goto loop_end;
      end if;
      ...
    <<loop_end>>
      common_cleanup;
  end loop;

Or consult Knuth, on  Structured Programming with go to Statements.
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/356635.356640


Georg