14.16. The continue Statement
A continue statement may occur only in a while, do, or for statement; statements of these three kinds are called iteration statements. Control passes to the loop-continuation point of an iteration statement.
ContinueStatement: continue Identifieropt ;
A continue statement with no label attempts to transfer control to the innermost enclosing while, do, or for statement of the immediately enclosing method, constructor, or initializer; this statement, which is called the continue target, then immediately ends the current iteration and begins a new one.
To be precise, such a continue statement always completes abruptly, the reason being a continue with no label.
If no while, do, or for statement of the immediately ...
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