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In article <4h2s54$o3@solutions.solon.com>,
Bill Winn <bill_winn@acm.org> wrote:
>I beg to differ.  break, used in the context of loops, is nothing more than 
>a glorified goto statement.  If you have conditions that force a loop to 
>stop executing why not just have a flag that is set when the loop is to 
>terminate?  Sure, you have to go to the top of the loop (in the case of for 
>and while) to test for the condition, but I would venture a guess that doing 
>such will not cause your system to fail.

That's making C into Pascal.

Of course you can always _do_ this, but it makes the code logic harder to
follow.
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