From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: stopping a loop iteration without exiting it Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:53:34 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <81971548-23c9-4927-a6a8-6f0f1dba896b@googlegroups.com> <5879f25e-c825-4c84-a219-293d1508b33d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: MyFhHs417jM9AgzRpXn7yg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49829 Date: 2018-01-09T15:53:34+01:00 List-Id: On 09/01/2018 14:47, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 14:07:41 +0100, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" > declaimed the following: > >> On 09/01/2018 13:50, Simon Wright wrote: >>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> Loop continuation/next iteration is exactly *not* restarting from the >>> beginning. >> >> Of course it is. Unless under "restarting" you mean not repeating the >> loop's top and body, but repeating the loop statement as a whole, which >> would be silly to do. > > But the label IS before the loop statement, so going to the label does > give the visual impression that one is restarting the entire loop... No, because the same label is also *after* the loop statement: ... end loop Process; ^^^^^^^ And the label is used in the exit statement too. Shouldn't exit Process; repeat all loop again? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de