Continue Considered Harmful? [closed]

Question

Should developers avoid using continue in C# or its equivalent in other languages to force the next iteration of a loop? Would arguments for or against overlap with arguments about Goto?

Answer 1

I think there should be more use of continue!

Too often I come across code like:

for (...) {    if (!cond1)    {       if (!cond2)       {           ... highly indented lines ...       }    } } 

instead of

for (...) {    if (cond1 || cond2)    {       continue;    }     ... } 

Use it to make the code more readable!

Answer 2

Is continue any more harmful than, say, break?

If anything, in the majority of cases where I encounter/use it, I find it makes code clearer and less spaghetti-like.