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Re: Using break in while loops bad habit?

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Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> wrote on 23 Jan 2016 in 
comp.lang.javascript:

>>Seems you don't follow my explanation.
> 
>      Since
>           break; break;
> is two statements and the first interrupts the normal flow of
> execution, when were you thinking that second statement would be
> executed?

[in the second from innermost loop, of course]

This was pseudocode, 
[Gene do you seriously not understand this?]
I showed it should be handy to specify multiple breaks
or named-loop breaks,
instead of the default innermost loop break,
and thereby showing the dangers of such default dependency.

In the main, I think breaks are a bad habit, 
nearly on par with the GoTo statement,
as Edsger Dijkstra fought against from 1959 onwards.

"break-break" is an expression from cb-radio from around that time.


-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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  Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-16 13:59 +0100
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      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-16 14:56 +0100
        Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-18 09:39 -0800
          Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-18 19:16 +0100
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              Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-24 00:49 +0100
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-25 21:36 -0800
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-26 10:12 +0100
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      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-18 19:18 +0100
        Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-23 10:33 -0800
          Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-24 00:51 +0100
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