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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> [...]
>
>> 'break' to quit a loop early is part of the language, so why shouldn't
>> someone make use it?
>
> Agreed.  (There are coding styles that require loops to exit only at the
> bottom, but that's not what we're talking about.)
>
>> It just its use can be interfered with when 'switch' is involved.
>
> Yes.  Everyone here knows that, and knew it before you started talking
> about it.
>
> Michael S wrote above that "The cases where I want to break out of
> the loop from the switch in the body of the loop are very common."
> Tim Rentsch questioned the "very common" part of that, and asked
> for an example.  [...]

I didn't question it.  I just said it surprised me.