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erik quanstrom wrote:
> is there some reason that rc has no "break" statement?
The rc paper has some notes on this :

"... I deleted the builtins export, readonly, break, continue, read,
return, set, times and unset because they seem redundant or only 
marginally useful."

> for example:
> 
> 	for(i in $fu){
> 		...
> 		if(endcond)
> 			break;
> 	}
> 
> - erik