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From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Seven Original Sins of K&R (Long)
Message-ID: <1896@tuvie>
Date: 2 Oct 90 15:04:22 GMT
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rv@erix.ericsson.se (Robert Virding) writes:

>What's the problem? "break" means break out of the surrounding
>while/for/case. The REAL sin is that "break" ignores a surrounding if.
>This really can cause problems.

Like in:

1:	for (;;) {
2:		/* code */
3:		if (expression) break;
4:		/* more code */
5:	}

If break would break out of the surrounding if, it would not break out
of the loop, so line 3 would just be a noop.

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