Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?

[Sean Neakums <sneakums _at_ xxxxxxxx>]

commence  Valdis.Kletnieks _at_ 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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