I always thought the 'word.' control structures were
meant to be c syntax lookalikes in order to tell you
beware! you’re not writing idiomatic J here
that’s why I thought they were chosen that way
and if so, I’d agree
Am 22.05.20 um 00:05 schrieb Henry Rich:
Rejected. I agree that 'continue' is not the best word. I would have
said 'restart', but only if I were Dennis Ritchie defining C; since then
the use of 'break' and 'continue' is so universal as to quell any desire
for improvement.
Henry Rich
On 5/21/2020 4:08 PM, Arthur Anger wrote:
The control word 'continue.' may easily be construed in each of three
different ways, to go to:
--the next line in the B-block, without finishing a line it's embedded
in (useful perhaps as a debugging insertion);
--the 'end.' of the for.-group, and its next iteration;
--past the 'end.' of the for.-group, to stop iterating.
I propose that 'continue.' be replaced by the less ambiguous 'iterate.'
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