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Clarification to the break statement (GH-2453) (#GH-2457)

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Clarify that the break statement breaks out of the innermost enclosing for or while loop.
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regexaurus 2017-06-27 22:38:22 -04:00 • committed by Mariatta
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@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Later we will see more functions that return iterables and take iterables as arg
:keyword:`break` and :keyword:`continue` Statements, and :keyword:`else` Clauses on Loops
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The :keyword:`break` statement, like in C, breaks out of the smallest enclosing
The :keyword:`break` statement, like in C, breaks out of the innermost enclosing
:keyword:`for` or :keyword:`while` loop.
Loop statements may have an ``else`` clause; it is executed when the loop