Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? | From | Sean Neakums <> | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:32:01 +0000 |
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commence Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu quotation:
> The real problem is that C doesn't have a good multi-level "break" > construct. On the other hand, I don't know of any language that has > a good one - some allow "break 3;" to break 3 levels- but that's > still bad because you get screwed if somebody adds an 'if' > clause....
Perl's facility for labelling blocks and jumping to the beginning or end with 'next' and 'last' may be close to what you want, but I don't know if it's ever been implemented in a language one could sensibly use to write a kernel.
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