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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Majic <majic.one@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> How about `skip' or `next'?
>
> Too likely to be used as identifiers.  In particular "next" is pretty
> much the established standard link name for linked lists.  "skip" is
> also likely to be used in skip lists or as a variable name for
> strides.

By the way, it would also be possible to just use "repeat" which already
is a reserved word.  If its use is restricted to the same places where
"break" and "return" are allowed, I don't think that there is syntactic
ambiguity.

-- 
David Kastrup