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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 04:13:22 +1000
Subject: Re: fun with nested loops
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Daniel <dalist0@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Has anyone an idea on a nice way to write breaks/continues/redos for
> deeply
> nested loops?
>

Do you only ever have one top-level loop that you would be naming? If
so, put that loop into a function and use return instead of break.
Unfortunately that doesn't work for continue.

ChrisA