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break statement
subject			fact

break statement	causes execution to immediately halt the current loop
	has purpose to terminate a loop or switch-case statement
	is a subtopic of Loops and Decision Making
	is a kind of control flow statement
	see also break
statement	is terminated by a semicolon
	should be not more than one line long if possible
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional

Kinds of break statement :

• labelled break statement (3 facts)
• unlabelled break statement (4 facts)