BREAK description in BOL

SQL Server 2005 BOL says about BREAK:

Exits the innermost loop in a WHILE or IF…ELSE statement.

I don't understand this part about IF…ELSE. It looks like you can put BREAK inside IF. Actually BREAK works only inside WHILE, and co开发者_开发问答ntrol flow pass after loop's END. BREAK not in a WHILE context fires error, and that's completely OK.

My question is - why documentation mention IF...ELSE?

BTW, SQL Server 2000 BOL says only this:

Exits the innermost WHILE loop.

SQL 2008 BOL says:

Exits the innermost loop in a WHILE statement or an IF…ELSE statement inside a WHILE loop.

which is probably what the SQL 2005 documentation should have said.

The SQL2008 explanation still seems somewhat confusing however. To me it implies that break in an IF…ELSE statement inside a WHILE loop would just exit the IF…ELSE. This is not the case.

DECLARE @i INT = 0
WHILE @i<10
BEGIN
    IF(@i=3)
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'i=3'
        BREAK
    END
    ELSE
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'i<>3'
    END
    SET @i = @i+1
END
PRINT 'out of while'

Prints

i<>3
i<>3
i<>3
i=3
out of while