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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: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:14:39 +0100
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On 10/01/2018 11:52, AdaMagica wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2018 14:07:43 UTC+1 schrieb Dmitry A. Kazakov:
>> 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.
> 
> This is sophistry.

Yes.

> Fact is that any syntax that might lead to
> ambiguities is not going to fly because it's incompatible with the
> basics of Ada.

I don't see any ambiguity as there is none in

    exit Process;

It exits the loop at its end, it does not jump to the point before the 
loop. So could do

    goto Process;

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de