>> If I were designing new features for the C language, I'd probably
>> want the loop label to be just like an ordinary label, thus:
>> 
>>         outer:  for (x=list; x; x=x->link) {
>>                     while (...) {
>>                         ...
>>                         if (...) continue outer;
>
>Ah, yes, that makes more sense to me too, and if I'm not mistaken
>there's already prior art for using labels on 'continue' and 'break' (I
>just can't remember where at the moment -- ah, yes, Java & JavaScript.)

not for nothing, but perl does this also, and predates java and
javascript.

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