• Robert Fraser (3/17) Sep 12 2007 I like the "goto do"/"goto while" option. It's congruent with "goto case...

Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:

Downs Wrote:

 "Downs" wrote
 I just came upon the interesting fact that using the "continue"
 statement in a do { } while() loop does not, in fact, continue with the
 next loop, but instead continues with the _condition_.



I never knew that (I rarely use do/while); I would have assumed it does another
iteration of the loop. I agree that this is unintuitive to me, but others seem
to think this is the right behavior and C compatibility is important so it
should probably be left as-is.

 miller[] came up with two good alternatives over in #D
 1) forbidding continue in do/while and replacing it with continue
 do/continue while, or
 2) adding goto do/goto while statements.
 The first one has the advantage of making it totally impossible for a
 newcomer to trip on this, while the second one has the advantage of not
 breaking existing code.
 
 Whaddya think?
  --downs

I like the "goto do"/"goto while" option. It's congruent with "goto case"/"goto
default".