Breaking Out of Loops

Breaking Out of Loops
A Programming Pattern

Prof. David Bernstein
James Madison University

Computer Science Department

bernstdh@jmu.edu

Motivation

A Language Feature

The Statement:
- Some languages have a break statement that causes control to be transferred to the end of the immediately enclosing loop
A Common Recommendation:
- Use the break statement sparingly (if at all)

An Example

Print Up To and Including the First Negative Number

javaexamples/programmingpatterns/LoopBreakExample.java

(Fragment: break)