Breaking out of loop

### 25.3.6 Breaking out of loop

The break command exits a loop without finishing it.

- break takes no arguments or parentheses.
- break exits the current loop.

#### Example

Define a program:

testbreak(a,b):={ local r; while (true) { if (b==0) { break; } r:=irem(a,b); a:=b; b:=r; } return a; }

Then:

testbreak(4,0)

4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

since the while loop is interrupted when b is 0 and a is 4.