Michael Day wrote: > Why is break allowed outside of iteration statements, but not continue?
Perhaps because 'continue' would implicitly create an iteration, when no iteration construct is apparent in the source code. That would violate the principle advocated by Dijkstra in 'A Case Against the GO TO Statement' <http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD215.html>, since the start of every block (not even just every labelled block) would be a possible jump target, with no explicit indication that you need to keep track of the number of iterations of the block in order to describe the progress of that function execution. -- David-Sarah Hopwood _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
