Re: I'd give my right arm for a continue statement

[Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@...>]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:42, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Not at all.  It would reenter the loop at the top.  Since you usually
> use "continue" when the proper completion of the loop is foregone, and
> since in repeat-until the loop condition is evaluated _after_ the
> completion of the loop, there is really no point except some sense of
> compatibility or whatever else to jump to the evaluation of the loop:
> the perceived problem in the implementation was "what do we do if the
> variables of the loop condition are not yet declared", and that is just
> a subset of "the loop condition is not even established".
>

This makes perfect sense to me and leads to readable code. Skipping to
the end-of-a-loop has potential scoping problems but skipping to
beginning-of-a-loop seems to have none. Thanks David!

--Leo--