RFC: Behavior of continue in do/while loops.

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Regan Heath wrote
> I suspect whether it is intuitive or not depends on how you think of
> 'continue', for example:

> However,  if you think of 'continue' as meaning 'go to the next
> iteration' then you would expect it to do whatever it would have done at
> the end of this iteration, before the next one.

> If you think of 'continue' as meaning 'go back to the start of
> the(this?) loop' then you wouldn't expect the condition to be evaluated.

The problem here is that for every case *but* a do/while loop, the two
perspectives behave exactly the same. See my follow-up to the other post
for a way to prevent this conflict.

> Regan
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