continue feels wrong to me. break gets you out of there, but continue seems just to be spaghetti.
On the other hand, you can emulate continue with break (at least in Java).
for (String str : strs) contLp: {
...
break contLp;
...
}
(This posting had an obvious bug in the above code for over a decade. That doesn't look good for break/continue.)
continue can be useful in some circumstances, but it still feels dirty to me. It might be time to introduce a new method.
for (char c : cs) {
final int i;
if ('0' <= c && c <= '9') {
i = c - '0';
} else if ('a' <= c && c <= 'z') {
i = c - 'a' + 10;
} else {
continue;
}
... use i ...
}
These uses should be very rare.
