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I will never forget what I found when hacking the internals of Handsontable many years ago... JavaScript For loops with - :label (eg go to) - continue - bre

• arcturus17 8y ago
  What’s so bad about continue and break? I’ve seen it in different languages in what I consider great projects... Sometimes you really need an exit in the middle of the loop.
  • Drakim 8y ago
    Worst part is, I've seen devs wrap their entire for-loop in an anonymous function JUST so they could use a return; to break out of the loop, instead of using break;
  • nickstefan12 8y ago
    Nothing is particularly “bad”. I’ve used them in python a number of times. I’m more just commenting that it’s a strange / interesting code based worth sight seeing. It was written in a style that seemed like from another language.
• chrishere 8y ago
  I remember that particular loop. It’s already gone.