At 05:51 PM 3/19/98 -0500, Mike Kamrad wrote: > Does anyone with a Rationale for Ada83 (mine's packed away) >or a good memory tell me why continue wasn't included in the language? It is so far down the list of syntactic sugar that it got lost. The typical continue use in C looks in Ada like: loop case X is when A =>... end case; end loop; A change to the language to permit the loop and case statement to be more closely bound would have been nice, in fact I sometimes write: loop case X is ... end case; end loop; And I'd do it more often if I could write that last line as: end loop case; But I'm not about to request THAT language extension. In Ada continue semantics only occurs when you need to prematurely leave the logic for a particular choice, and want to stay in the processing loop: ... when D => Do_Some_Processing; if Condition then Error_Message; continue; end if; More_Processing; when E => ... and of course what we really write in Ada is: ... when D => Do_Some_Processing; if Condition then Error_Message; else More_Processing; end if; when E => ... (Or possibly "if not Condition" but I like to put the (shorter)error cases first.) In any case, I have yet to use a goto or even want a continue in such code. Robert I. Eachus with Standard_Disclaimer; use Standard_Disclaimer; function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...