ECMAScript® 2024 Language Specification

Draft ECMA-262 / February 15, 2024

14.9 The break Statement

Syntax

BreakStatement[Yield, Await] : break ; break [no LineTerminator here] LabelIdentifier[?Yield, ?Await] ;

14.9.1 Static Semantics: Early Errors

BreakStatement : break ;

14.9.2 Runtime Semantics: Evaluation

BreakStatement : break ;
  1. Return Completion Record { [[Type]]: break, [[Value]]: empty, [[Target]]: empty }.
 BreakStatement : break LabelIdentifier ;
  1. Let label be the StringValue of LabelIdentifier.
  2. Return Completion Record { [[Type]]: break, [[Value]]: empty, [[Target]]: label }.