meaning of continue (WAS: Some interesting novice questions [...])

[Alex Martelli]

rob at raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
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>human code-executer to do the right thing.  Finally, one could define continue
>to mean that `execution continues with the test expression of the innermost
>enclosing loop'.  Would you claim this wrong because K&R2 does not refer to
>`test expression'?  In other words, your concept of correctness is flawed.

I *WOULD* indeed claim that saying that continue means "proceed with
the test expression of the innermost enclosing loop" is wrong - if
said loop is for(<a>;<b>;<c>), executions on a continue proceeds with
the *increment* expression <c>, NOT with the test expression <b>!
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