On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 8:42 PM Brian Bi <bbi5291_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> I've encountered this before when writing parsing code. Sometimes you want to transition to a different state and then re-process the current character.
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> I dealt with it by using `goto` to jump to the beginning of the loop body. I think this is a better option than introducing a new and obscure control flow construct.

They say behavioural modernity began in humans around about 20,000 -
100,000 years ago, when we started showing more sophisticated
behaviours. Since then though, some communities of people have swayed
toward intrigue at new ideas, while other communities have swayed
toward suspicion of new ideas.

Something which is new, that we haven't encountered before, can be
called a number of things: unusual, strange, odd, weird, or we can try
to put a more positive spin on it like 'innovational' or
'cutting-edge'.

Applying the exclamation operator to the 'continue' keyword as I've
proposed, is certainly something new, but I don't think there's
anything obscure or outlandish about it. I think it's far less obscure
that using 'goto' to jump back to the start of the loop.

People won't be scratching their heads for very long when they see
"!continue" -- I think the syntax accurately portrays what it does.