diff --git a/BUILT.md b/BUILT.md
index 72ed093..05f9da1 100644
--- a/BUILT.md
+++ b/BUILT.md
@@ -2490,6 +2490,11 @@ header would have jumped straight past it: the counter would never advance and t
 the latch, `continue` branches to the latch block rather than to the header, and a `while` has an empty latch that
 every optimiser folds away. `emit_while` emits four blocks instead of three.
 
+A **labelled** `continue` is the half worth stating outright: `(continue :rows)` branches to the *named* loop's latch,
+so that loop's counter advances and the rest of its body is skipped along with the rest of every loop inside it. It is
+"start the next iteration of `:rows`", not "skip the rest of this innermost body". `loops.flan` asserts exactly that —
+an outer `dotimes` whose tail never prints while its counter still runs out.
+
 `Tast.Break` and `Tast.Continue` carry a **relative depth** — how many loops out the target is, innermost first —
 rather than a name or an id, because that is exactly what a backend already has. `emit` keeps one entry per `While`
 it is inside, the same shape and for the same reason as `pads`, and indexes it. The invariant this rests on: the
diff --git a/test/programs/loops.flan b/test/programs/loops.flan
index db7831f..dfe5678 100644
--- a/test/programs/loops.flan
+++ b/test/programs/loops.flan
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@
       (set sum (+ sum k)))
     (print sum) (println ""))                 ; 0 + 1 + 3 + 4 = 8
 
+  ;; Every iteration continues, and the count is still the trip count: the
+  ;; latch is on the continue path and not merely reachable from the body. The
+  ;; case above would hang if it were not; this one would count wrong.
+  (let [c 0]
+    (dotimes [m 3]
+      (set c (+ c 1))
+      (continue))
+    (print c) (println ""))                   ; 3
+
   ;; A labelled break leaves the named loop. Without the label it would leave
   ;; the inner one and the outer would run all three times: 0 1 0 1 0 1.
   (dotimes :outer [a 3]
diff --git a/test/test_acceptance.ml b/test/test_acceptance.ml
index e54bb09..da3ca8a 100644
--- a/test/test_acceptance.ml
+++ b/test/test_acceptance.ml
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ let () =
        latch, and folded onto the body a continue would jump past it — so the
        watchdog above is what turns that failure back into a report. *)
     outputs "break and continue" "programs/loops.flan"
-      "4\n9\n8\n0\n1\n0\n0\n0\n3\n6\nhit\nhit\n2\n";
+      "4\n9\n8\n3\n0\n1\n0\n0\n0\n3\n6\nhit\nhit\n2\n";
     (* The prelude's slice algorithms. Every assertion here is over an input a
        wrong implementation fails: unsorted with duplicates, negatives and an
        odd length; a reverse-sorted slice; and a sort of a subslice whose
diff --git a/test/test_flan.ml b/test/test_flan.ml
index 01d3862..06025e1 100644
--- a/test/test_flan.ml
+++ b/test/test_flan.ml
@@ -853,6 +853,11 @@ let () =
   rejects_check "break may not leave a restart-case"
     "(defn f [] (while true (restart-case (break) (go [] (println \"\")))))"
     ~needle:"a restart-case";
+  (* A clause is a barrier for the same reason the body is: it runs after a
+     transfer landed, with the form's frames still to be popped. *)
+  rejects_check "break may not leave a restart-case from a clause"
+    "(defn f [] (while true (restart-case (println \"\") (go [] (break)))))"
+    ~needle:"a restart-case";
   accepts "a loop inside a handler-bind may break out of itself"
     "(defstruct C [n i32])      (defn f [] (handler-bind [(C [c] 0)] (while true (break))))";
   rejects_check "break may not leave a handler-bind"