[fpc-pascal] Legitimate use of for and break

[Hairy Pixels]

> On Jun 16, 2023, at 6:23 PM, Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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> Whether it's elegant is a different question. In my opinion YES because it often gives better readable code than nested "if" statements inside the loop. But I've also read that using "break" is discouraged because it shows a bad choice of the loop range.

This is highly suspect. Doing an early break in loops is the essence of how to do linear searching. No idea who thinks that's a bad idea.

Regards,
Ryan Joseph