Re: Why should `break' and `continue' in functions not break loops running outside of the function?

[Oğuz]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 6:55 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> You might be interested in
>
> https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=842

The only argument against dynamic scoping there is that one might use
`break 1000' for exiting the outermost lexically enclosing loop and I
don't think anyone does that, you'd just count loops and specify the
exact number. Had it not been too late, I'd suggest `break 0' have
that effect (and `break -1' continue the outermost loop in progress,
and so on).

>
> There was a discussion on the austin-group mailing list back in 2016
> accompanying this defect report.

This I was interested in, but mail-archive doesn't have a copy, and
the austin group collaboration site doesn't show many of the replies
to that thread, including yours.

>
> Chet
>
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