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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Holy boop: goto for Java
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:13:00 +0200
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On 04.06.2012 16:44, Mike Schilling wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>> I have never seen a use of Java's labeled 'break' or 'continue'
>> outside of tutorials and examples, though.
>>
> I've very occasionally found them useful, but they are on the list of things
> I wouldn't miss if they were gone.  Others:
>
> * Do-while.  It seems almost never to be what's needed.  Though I do quite
> often need
>
>    while(true)
>    {
>     stuff
>      if (condition)
>      {
>        break;
>      }
>      more stuff
>    }

Interesting: I cannot remember having needed this.  While I do remember 
using do {} while.  What use cases do you have for the construct above?

> * Local classes (i.e. named classes defined inside a method)

+1

> * The non-short-circuit logical operators&  and |

+1

Kind regards

	robert

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