[fpc-devel] Fwd: While - Otherwise Statement

[David W Noon]

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On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:34:03 -0300, Flávio Etrusco
(flavio.etrusco at gmail.com) wrote about "Re: [fpc-devel] Fwd: While -
Otherwise Statement" (in
<CAJvBmOZTakAS-n=ZY+swh1-ehz-iWKre6esgmyQG9=XvzGALrA at mail.gmail.com>):

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:15 PM, David W Noon 
> <david.w.noon at googlemail.com> wrote:
[snip]
>> loop_1: DO i = 1 TO m; loop_2 : DO j = 1 TO n; loop_3: DO k = 1
>> TO p; ... IF some_condition THEN LEAVE loop_3;[...]
> 
> If I'm not missing something, Java implements 'break' just like
> this.

Last time I coded any significant amount of Java it still used the
C/C++ syntax -- but that was 10 or 11 years ago.

> I'd like such enhancement, but right now is there any reason to
> avoid 'goto' besides the bad karma?

I view it largely as "the curse of Edsgar Dijkstra". A very short
range goto should not be a real problem.
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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