5.7. break and continue

Although not strictly necessary, the break and continue statements can be useful to simplify some loops in imperative languages.

Like in Java and many other languages:

Consider the following contrived example:

module test

function main = |args| {
  var i = 0
  while true {
    i = i + 1
    if i < 40 {
      continue
    } else {
      print(i + " ")
    }
    if i == 50 {
      break
    }
  }
  println("bye")
}

It prints the following output:

40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 bye

Golo does not support break statements to labels like Java does. In fact, this is a goto statement in disguise.