[Nickle]break/continue/return from catch block

[Keith Packard]

Around 23 o'clock on Jul 20, Bart Massey wrote:

> If I understand you correctly (not sure) you made break and
> continue break out of or repeat the catch block itself.  In
> any case, IMHO it should break out of or continue the
> surrounding loop, i.e.
> 
> 	while (1) {
> 	      try f(); catch e() { break; }
> 	}
> 
> should exit the while loop...

You agree with Rob Pike and the current implementation as well.  
Additional overloading of the 'break' statement is a bad idea, it should 
always control the nearest enclosing loop construct.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab