Mimicing "break" in a PL/SQL FOR Loop

It seems a major omission in the Oracle PL/SQL Programming language that the BREAK keyword cannot be used in FOR loops (or WHILE loops) to skip to the next iteration.

Here is a (trivial) example of how you can implement "break" functionality using exceptions:

DECLARE
  e_skip_row EXCEPTION;
  l_total PLS_INTEGER := 0;
BEGIN
  --
  dbms_output.enable(10000);
  --
  FOR l_index IN 1..100 LOOP
  BEGIN
    --
    -- If the row is even then skip
    IF MOD(l_index,2) = 0 THEN
      RAISE e_skip_row;
    END IF;
    --
    l_total := l_total + l_index;
    --
  EXCEPTION
    WHEN e_skip_row THEN NULL;
  END;
  END LOOP;
  --
  dbms_output.put_line('Total is: '||l_total);
  --
END;