Am 08.03.20 um 22:42 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > Am 08.03.2020 um 20:18 schrieb Artur Tarassow: > >> changed early in the loop. Let me come up with a constructed example >> -- I hope it shows my point for the usefulness of such a statement: > > I would agree that in some ways the hansl syntax is less flexible than > that of other programming languages. However, I guess you need a > better or "more sharpened" example. Hi, I admit that the example isn't very convincing -- just supposed to be a simple illustration of the issue. > For example, I can rewrite your demonstration as follows: > >> <hansl> >> scalar k = 2 >> loop i=1..3 -q >> >>      scalar n = randgen1(i, 0, 3) >>      if n == 0 >>          # get out here and proceed with i++ >>      else >>          if n == 1 >>              # get out here and proceed with i++ >>          else >>              # do something clever here >>              if k > 2 >>                  # get out here and proceed with i++ >>              else >>                  # do something clever here >>              endif >>          endif >>      endif >> endloop > > ... > if n==0 > ... > elif n==1 > ... > elif k > 2 > ... > else > ... > endif > > which is pretty clean without any 'continue' statement. If it could always be solved like this, I guess their would be no need for the "continue" statement in C ;-)