Justification

"continue" statements cause breaks in the normal structured control flow of a program. For this reason they shall be avoided as they affect the readability and maintainability of the code.

Example 1

for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
   if (a[i] < 0)
   {
       /* process negative term */
       continue; /* WRONG */
   }
   /* Process positive term */
}

Example 2

for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
   if (a[i] < 0)
   {
      /* Process negative term */
   }
   else /* a[i] >= 0 */ /* RIGHT */
   {
      /* Process positive term */
   }   
}