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Honestly, I would just not use it wherever possible. It's a wart on the language, and there are plenty of semantically superior alternatives. I would rather wrap in function + use return over break, use a sentinel value, or raise an exception over using the else block.

If there's anything I've learned, it's that just because a language has a feature, doesn't mean it should be used.

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Function + return seems like a good solution, but I'd rather not keep additional state or use `raise` (ie socially acceptable GOTO) when the language has a primitive for this.

You shouldn't use a feature just because a language has it, you should use it because it's a simple, well-defined primitive that's less complex than alternatives.

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