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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Comments: In reply to Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
 "[PATCH] Re: Oddball output from zerrmsg()" (Jun  4, 10:37pm)
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On Jun 4, 10:37pm, Bart Schaefer wrote:
} Subject: [PATCH] Re: Oddball output from zerrmsg()
}
} ... the "continue" propagates
} up through the dynamic scopes and restarts the "while true;" loop ...
} 
} Not even an "always" block can intercept this, which is probably a bug in
} the handling of "always".

OK, not a bug, exactly.  The always-block is in fact executed, but it has
no way to decrement the number of levels of "break" or "continue" that
have been set by the try-block.  It can *increase* the number of levels,
but not stop the break/continue from propagating upward.