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Re: Exit from loop?

From	Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Exit from loop?
Date	2018-04-06 18:19 +0200
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On 2018-04-04 21:44, Eric Douglas wrote:
> There are coding preferences to always exit from a single point, but if the language doesn't care, sometimes it's easier to exit in the middle of the loop structure if there's nothing you need to do after the loop.  If it's bad for the language ie messing with the garbage collector, we should always exit properly with the break.
> 

The language doesn't care. It's a matter of readability.

Yes, arguably, single-return can make code analysis easier, and might
enable more advanced JIT-like voodoo. In my experience and for most
practical concerns, that's negligible, however.

-- 
DF.

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Exit from loop? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-04-04 12:05 -0700
  Re: Exit from loop? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-04-04 15:25 -0400
    Re: Exit from loop? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-04-04 12:44 -0700
      Re: Exit from loop? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-04-04 19:51 -0400
        Re: Exit from loop? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-04-05 10:46 +0000
      Re: Exit from loop? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-04-06 18:19 +0200

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