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Subject: Re: stopping a loop iteration without exiting it
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On 01/04/2018 12:17 AM, Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> Jeff's suggestion (nested 'if' in the loop) is a good one when it works,
> but it doesn't work when the "continue" is nested within further control
> constructs.

I have never seen a real-world situation in which a "continue" was needed. The 
vast majority of times that I've seen where people have claimed they needed it, 
it could be replaced by an "if". The few remaining cases involved very 
convoluted and unreadable code. When it was rethought and simplified, it no 
longer needed a "continue". I would be interested in seeing real-world examples 
where it was needed.

An informative data point is the book /Software Tools/, which presents a whole 
lot of code in Ratfor, which has an equivalent of "continue". Interestingly, it 
is never used.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Damn it, Jim, I'm an actor, not a doctor."
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