The statement
EXIT
raises the exit-exception. An EXIT statement must be textually enclosed by a LOOP, WHILE, REPEAT, or FOR statement.
We define EXIT and RETURN in terms of exceptions in order to specify their interaction with the exception handling statements. As a pathological example, consider the following code, which is an elaborate infinite loop:
LOOP TRY TRY EXIT FINALLY RAISE E END EXCEPT E => (*skip*) END END
Last modified on Wed Apr 3 09:39:07 PST 1996 by heydon modified on Fri Apr 15 08:53:02 PDT 1994 by kalsow