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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:26:31 +0100
From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Subject: Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?
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> [Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
> 
> The real problem is that C doesn't have a good multi-level "break" construct.
> On the other hand, I don't know of any language that has a good one - some
> allow "break 3;" to break 3 levels- but that's still bad because you get
> screwed if somebody adds an 'if' clause....

Not necessarily.  A good multilevel break/continue implementation will
only work on loop blocks, not conditionals.

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