On 2023-06-18 03:04, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Jun 18, 2023, at 1:07 AM, tsie...@softcon.com wrote:
This is interesting, because it's the first time I've ever seen
"break" as a valid command in pascal, and I've been using pascal since
the mid/late 80s. All kinds of dialects too, and I've never seen
break as a keyword. C, Python, Perl, sure, even shell scripts, but
pascal? Never seen it used before. Is this a relatively new addition
to fpc or something?
I don't remember break NOT being in Pascal. How did you exit a loop
otherwise, goto? Break is common in basically all languages now. Can't
think of a language I've used without it.
Obviously, loop is exited using the loop condition by default and that
may be achieved without additional constructs, should it be break or
goto. Yes, using break may be more elegant in certain cases, but that's
another story.
Tomas
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