OpenEuphoria

RE: goto considered essential

• Posted by Lynn Kilroy <leks_transportation at hotmail.com> Jan 22, 2006
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Jason Gade wrote:
> 
> 
> posted by: Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com>
> 
> 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.

Would there be an instance where exiting one would want you to exit 
another?  I mean, without the other really expecting it?  I mean, if you 
set it up to Exit one, you could, just prior to exiting the one loop, 
setup to exit the one it's nested in if necessary.

Love & Friendship & Blessed Be!
Lynn Erika Kilroy