Re: use of the break statement

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From: Larry Weiss
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:33

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Bill Winn wrote:
>  > In article <4gnbcp$biq@solutions.solon.com>, news@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
 > composed...
 > > break is very commonly used to exit a loop...
 > > I don't consider it to be in any way bad style.
  
 > break is *never* the only way that a loop can stop executing.  There is
 > *always* one or more conditions attached to the execution of the break, and
 > those conditions may server, just as easily, to set the flag described
 > above.


Do you have an example of some C code where you had the option of
using a break, but decided not to?

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