Skipping within a For Loop

[OldMoses]

As Pete demonstrated, there are often quicker and more concise ways to skip a loop iteration. I use it fairly often, but it's hard to justify, except in rare circumstances. I agree, it's a style thing. It can make code a little harder to read for debugging too, since there's fewer indentation blocks over using an IF ... END IF block.

I like _CONTINUE for things like the following:

active% = 5
FOR x% = 1 to 10
    IF x% = active% THEN _CONTINUE
    'code to determine distance between objects x% and active%
NEXT x%

It tightens the line count (but not the typing) slightly from:

active% = 5
FOR x% = 1 to 10
    IF x% <> active% THEN
        'code to determine distance between objects x% and active%
    END IF
NEXT x%