Why is break allowed in finally, but continue is not?

[Ned Batchelder]

On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 5:28:44 PM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> writes:
> > So why treat 'continue' specially?
> 
> I am inclined to agree, but in the opposite direction: a case should be
> made for allowing *any* flow-control statement in an exception-handler's
> 'finally' clause.

I agree, those all seem like bad ideas.  But 'continue' has been singled
out for a SyntaxError.  Rumor has it that continue was difficult to make
work at all, while the other keywords, while ill-advised, were at least
possible.

--Ned.