On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:15:40PM -0400, Carl Denk wrote:
> Per my "The C Programmer's Handbook", AT&T Bell labs. 1985:
> continue : Goes to top of smallest enclosing "while, do, or for" 
> statement, causing it to repeat execution. This is the "opposite" of the 
> break statement.

One further item. On a 'for' statement, the continue will execute the post
loop statement of the 'for' before moving on to the next iteration.

BAJ

> 
> I learned something too :) :)
> 
> Sean Breheny wrote:
> > What is a "continue" statement? I assumed we were talking about C
> > here, I've never seen a C keyword "continue"
> >
> > Also, I think that break DOES work inside the {} following an IF
> > statement. It immediately takes you out of the {}.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Marcel
> > Birthelmer<marcelb.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >>> #define while if
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> This would choke on break/continue statements, though.
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