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Fredrik Bredberg (konfrbr@euax7i3c01.eua.ericsson.se) wrote:
: Andrew Dunbar (andrewd@agnus.livewire.com.au) wrote:
: :
: : Has anyone thought of the possibility of 'named' loops?
: :
: : for outer (x = 0; x < MAXX; x++)
: : {
: :    for inner (y = 0; y < MAXY; y++)
: :    {
: :       if (map[y][x] == '*')
: :          break (outer);
: :    }
: : }
: 
: I think that Andrew's `named' loops is the best alternative to this
: problem that I'v seen so far! The main reason for this is that the
: `label' is so closely coupled to the loop constructor.
: 

Thanks for the support!
The only problem I can see is for do loops:

do
{
    while inner (exp1)
    {
        if (exp2)
            break outer;
    }
} while outer;

Not as pretty is it? But then again do loops never were as nice as the
others.

Andrew Dunbar
GPSoftware