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   Markus.Humm to Rudy Velthuis   
   Re: continue/break loop early in Pascal?   
   14 Dec 06 19:45:07   
   
   From: markus.humm@freenet.de   
      
   Rudy Velthuis schrieb:   
   > Markus.Humm wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hello,   
   >>   
   >> sorry, but you're wrong. Exit was there yes, but break/continue came   
   >> up with TP 7.   
   >   
   > Oh sorry. I already showed how to work around the lack of Continue. You   
   > can easily work around Break as well, either using goto (bad!) or using   
   > a flag variable, an if-then clause and a while or repeat/until loop.   
   >   
   > Those workarounds are almost universal and will even work in Delphi   
   > 2006.    
   >   
   Yes, they will. But usage of flags is bad when you have break. YOu might   
   end up in a "flag hell"... ;-)   
      
   I already had to throw away some overflagged app once (not Pascal)   
   somebody other did. It was simply not understandable.   
      
   Greetings   
      
   Markus   
      
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