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From: goer@SOPHIST.UCHICAGO.EDU (Richard Goerwitz)
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Subject: break, goto
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Date: 22 Jul 90 22:09:21 GMT
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Having break act as a control structure has helped me avoid a helluva
lot of kludgy constructions (which in C would normally be uncluttered
with a goto).  E.g. I occasionally have reason to write

  every i := 1 to 2 do {
    every j := 1 to 10 do {
      i+j = 5 & {break next}
      }
    }

Naturally, there are ways to code this without using the break.  It's
a nice bit of sugar, though, isn't it?

    -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
    goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer