C 'break' command - a query - (nf)

[ka at spanky.UUCP]

For the record, the multi-level break statement in Bliss does use
labels (just like Ada and PL/1).  The reason Ratfor and the shell
use a count of the number of levels to break is probably to simplify
the implementation by avoiding the need for a symbol table.  This
seems reasonable; I don't recall *ever* seeing a multi-level break
or continue used in shell code.  Certainly this is not a frequently
used construct.
					Kenneth Almquist