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Is it bad practice to use break in loops?


Could we make a thread specifically about bad practices?

Never use Go to's for looping, loop exiting or instead of functions or anything.. that IS bad practice. Java Programmer, AMD Fanboy and soon to ...

Command to break while loop if stuck in a script - Ignition

A way to break out of a while loop would be nice. Several times while testing a while loop inside a script, the script got stuck in an infinite loop.

[SOLVED] C/C++ do loops - good practice or bad?

No! good thing about do-while: it is executed at least once because the checking is done at the bottom of the loop. Use when your need it!

Why can't you break out of the forEach loop? - DEV Community

Even if you assumed that something like a "break" statement was valid inside a function (which indeed isn't the case), you'd see that it would ...

Loop and Side-Effect - C Board

Can this be considered as a side-effect, bad practice ? ... Yes! Why would you do this? ... I would rather avoid break;. while(1), break, continue, ...

When and How to Use Nested Loops | by Jenna Dean | The Startup

“Driving a thirty ton truck instead of a small passenger vehicle is bad practice. Except when you need to transport 20 or 30 tons of stuff. When ...

Python: Break and Continue in Loops - YouTube

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exit vs break in powershell - Spiceworks Community

I agree with Neally that Break usually is not needed, but another option is to use a label on your loop to specify what the Break keyword should ...

Loops in Python - For, While and Nested Loops - GeeksforGeeks

No, for loops are not inherently bad in Python. They are a fundamental construct for iteration and are widely used in Python programming.

How to Use Python Break | Coursera

You can use a break statement with both for loops and while loops. In a nested loop, break will stop execution of the innermost loop. The flow ...

while - JavaScript - MDN Web Docs - Mozilla

break stops statement execution and goes to the first statement after the loop. continue stops statement execution and re-evaluates condition .

Processing 1.0 _ALPHA_ - is it possible to break out a for() loop?

you should almost always never ever use them.. for as long as i've been writing code in java (since ~1995) i've never had to use one. it's mostly because it ...

PHP do while Loop - W3Schools

The do...while loop will always execute the block of code at least once, it will then check the condition, and repeat the loop while the specified condition is ...

Is using break statement in loops discouraged? - Sololearn

my teacher says that using a break statement in any loop(for, while, do/while) is bad, but I don't see why. Is there any reason why he might say ...

Goto - Wikipedia

... breaks from loops. ... Because some languages like C don't allow multi-level breaks via their break keyword, some textbooks advise the programmer to use goto in ...

How to Use "break" and "continue" in Python "while" Loops - YouTube

You'll walk through practical examples of how to use "break" and "continue" in Python when you're dealing with "while" loops.

Effective Go - The Go Programming Language

It's helpful if everyone using the package can use the same name to refer ... Sometimes, though, it's necessary to break out of a surrounding loop, not ...

C++ Core Guidelines - GitHub Pages

int index = -1; // bad, plus should use gsl::index for (int i = 0; i < v.size(); ++i) { if (v[i] == val) { index = i; break; } } // ... } ...

Yes, while(true) is THAT bad! How to write a readable loop in Python ...

Are while(true) loops really so bad? Yes, they are! Let's dive ... take an online course at CCRI! We have courses in Python, Java, and ...

The event loop - JavaScript - MDN Web Docs - Mozilla

As always, calling a function creates a new stack frame for that function's use. The processing of functions continues until the stack is once ...