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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: stopping a loop iteration without exiting it
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 15:19:49 -0600
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"Lucretia" <laguest9000@googlemail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:54:36 UTC, Mehdi Saada  wrote:
>> Is there a way to tell to ignore the remaining of a loop ? Like an exit 
>> statement, but instead of quiting the loop, it would go to the next 
>> iteration.
>> Can we do this except with a recursive structure ?
>
> You mean like "continue" in C? No, there's no way in Ada, unless you use a 
> goto
> which is stupid. Just structure your loop properly.

A "goto" is *not* stupid in this case. It isn't always sensible to 
restructure a loop to avoid "continue". We looked at adding the feature 
sometime back (it happens hundreds of times in the GNAT source code), but 
the decision was that a goto was good enough. (Especially after the syntax 
change allowing it directly at the end of a loop.) That is:

    loop
      ...
             goto Continue;
      ...
    <<Continue>>
    end loop;

                                  Randy.