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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: stopping a loop iteration without exiting it
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 12:26:49 +0100
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On 09/01/2018 12:05, AdaMagica wrote:
> Process : loop
>       ...
>       goto Process;
>       ...
> end loop Process;
> 
> For me, this looks like the loop is restarted from the beginning

Which is exactly what loop continuation/next iteration is.

> so why on earth can't we save our time and go on to discussing more
> important problems with Ada?

Important problems have solutions "too complex" to be adopted.

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