why no break N levels, as in other leading languages?

[Evan Simpson]

laotseu wrote:
> Reminds me of an evil (tm) statement known in some others languages. 
> Should I name it ?-)

Assuming that you're serious, you've misunderstood the proposal. 
try..continue is *less* like the statement considered harmful than 
try...except is.  It is restricted to the current lexical scope, that 
is, you can't "break 'foo'" out of a function.  Any attempt to break 
with a label that doesn't match a lexically enclosing continue clause is 
a SyntaxError.

Cheers,

Evan @ 4-am