OpenEuphoria

RE: goto considered essential

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Jan 21, 2006
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Lynn Kilroy wrote:
> 
> Wasn't there an exit thingabobbers I saw mentioned somewhere?  I thought 
> it would be neat to use, because it doesn't exist in QBasic, and I had 
> to setup escape sequences that would abort my loops by resetting 
> variables and stuff.  Really messy and unclear.  Exit looked like a 
> great alternative.
> 
> Love & Friendship & Blessed Be!
> Lynn Erika Kilroy

Yes, there is an exit statement. It will leave the current while or for loop
that you are in. It only exits one level, though.

And unfortunately there is no corresponding continue statement, that would jump
back to the top of the loop.

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j.