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    SubjectRe: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?
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    On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:32:01 GMT, Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>  said:
    > commence Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu quotation:
    >
    > > The real problem is that C doesn't have a good multi-level "break"
    > > construct. On the other hand, I don't know of any language that has
    > > a good one - some allow "break 3;" to break 3 levels- but that's
    > > still bad because you get screwed if somebody adds an 'if'
    > > clause....
    >
    > Perl's facility for labelling blocks and jumping to the beginning or
    > end with 'next' and 'last' may be close to what you want, but I don't
    > know if it's ever been implemented in a language one could sensibly
    > use to write a kernel.

    Hmm.. I'm not a Perl wizard.. <reads the docs> Yeah, that's what I meant,
    and no, that's not a sane kernel language. ;)
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