Re: [fpc-pascal] Legitimate use of for and break

[Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal]

> On Jun 18, 2023, at 1:07 AM, tsie...@softcon.com wrote:
> 
> This is interesting, because it's the first time I've ever seen "break" as a 
> valid command in pascal, and I've been using pascal since the mid/late 80s.  
> All kinds of dialects too, and I've never seen break as a keyword.  C, 
> Python, Perl, sure, even shell scripts, but pascal? Never seen it used 
> before.  Is this a relatively new addition to fpc or something?

I don't remember break NOT being in Pascal. How did you exit a loop otherwise, 
goto? Break is common in basically all languages now. Can't think of a language 
I've used without it.


Regards,
        Ryan Joseph

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