On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:15 PM, David W Noon <david.w.n...@googlemail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:11:18 -0400, Wkitty42 (wkitt...@windstream.net) > wrote about "Re: [fpc-devel] Fwd: While - Otherwise Statement" (in > <561c05d6.4010...@windstream.net>): > >> On 10/12/2015 02:02 PM, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: >>> >>> The next step would probably be controlled "break", where a user >>> would be able to specify how many nested loops needed to broken >>> from. > > Hi Mark, > > You might have seen me write things like this in the old OS2PROG echo > of Fidonet some 20+ years ago. ... :-) > > The only language I know that offers that level of control is PL/I, > where the break statement is coded as LEAVE. It is handled by > labelling the loop control statement and coding the required label in > the LEAVE statement. For example: > > loop_1: DO i = 1 TO m; > loop_2 : DO j = 1 TO n; > loop_3: DO k = 1 TO p; > ... > IF some_condition THEH > LEAVE loop_3;[...]
If I'm not missing something, Java implements 'break' just like this. I'd like such enhancement, but right now is there any reason to avoid 'goto' besides the bad karma? Regards, Flávio _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
