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Re: Labeled Loops?

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yaho??com> May 13, 2008
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> c.k.lester wrote:
> > 
> > or maybe:
> > 
> > for a = 1 to 10 do
> >     for b = 1 to 10 do
> >         while 1 do
> >             if b = 3 then exit a end if
> >             if a = 2 then continue b end if
> >         end while
> >     end for
> > end for
> 
> Ok, genius, how do you label a while loop? :P
> 
> Matt

Yeah, using the loop var as the exit or continue target for a "for" statement
makes sense to me. But as you and Jeremy pointed out, it /wouldn't/ make sense in
the context of "while" loops.

Hmm.

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j.