I don't see any way to do “break” or “continue” in a repeat loop.

These are pretty standard mechanisms in other languages to control loop iteration.

Does the scratch team have any plans to add them?

In the mean time, does anyone have a work-around?

I agree it's annoying

Break => put loop in custom block and use stop this script

Continue => replace with if statement inside loop

$(".box-head")[0].textContent = "committing AT crimes since $whenever"

Thank you for your reply MegaApuTurkUltra.

I'll try to figure out how to implement your suggestions.

I believe one of the one of the benefits of object oriented programming is to make it easy to re-use code (objects). Another programming rule I try to follow is to “not write the same code twice”. I'm pretty good at this in other programming languages, but it doesn't seem scratch provides the tools I need. Maybe I'll figure it out as I learn more.

If I am able to implement your suggestions I'll post the code.

kevinkrt4 wrote:

Thank you for your reply MegaApuTurkUltra.

I'll try to figure out how to implement your suggestions.

I believe one of the one of the benefits of object oriented programming is to make it easy to re-use code (objects). Another programming rule I try to follow is to “not write the same code twice”. I'm pretty good at this in other programming languages, but it doesn't seem scratch provides the tools I need. Maybe I'll figure it out as I learn more.

If I am able to implement your suggestions I'll post the code.

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

Break => put loop in custom block and use stop this script

generic loop {
  foo::grey
  if <pred::grey> then
    baz::grey
    break::control cap
  end
  bar::grey
}::control

is equivalent to

generic loop {
__helper_proc_n::custom
}::control
define __helper_proc_n
foo::grey
if <pred::grey> then
  baz::grey
  stop [this script v]
end
bar::grey

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

Continue => replace with if statement inside loop

generic loop {
  foo::grey
  if <pred::grey> then
    baz::grey
    continue::control cap
  end
  bar::grey
}::control

is equivalent to

generic loop {
  foo::grey
  set [__skip? v] to [false]
  if <pred::grey> then
    baz::grey
    set [__skip? v] to [true]
  end
  if <(__skip?) = [false]> then
    bar::grey
  end
}::control

Thank you very much for the excellent examples.

I'll experiment with them to burn them into memory.