Breaking out of nested loops

[Chris Liechti]

"Ulf Magnusson" <ulf.magnusson at ubm-computing.com> wrote in
news:w7Y%7.12719$l93.2807512 at newsb.telia.net: 

> I guess you mean something like this
> ******************
> for i in ...:
>     for j in ....:
>          if some_condition:
>                 magic_break
> code continues here...
> ******************
> 
> There are not supposed to be such a magical break, to my knowledge no
> other language support this either. It kind of breaks the good
> behaviour you expect from a imparative programming language.

Java does support this!

loop1: 
    	for(;;) {
    	    	for(;;) {
    	    	    	...
    	    	    	if (...) break loop1;
    	    	}
    	}

(the labels only work with break statements there is no goto in java.)

-- 
Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>