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to: Bo Simonsen
from: Jasen Betts
date: 2004-05-07 18:55:04
subject: Merits

Hi Bo.

06-May-04 17:29:52, Bo Simonsen wrote to Bill Birrell


 >> Just as a programmer will tend to understand either WHILE or UNTIL

 BB>> UNTIL is not a keyword in C, but I agree with the sentiment. I
 BB>> really couldn't follow all you were saying, John. The functions
 BB>> lenstr() and output() were written only to show the difference
 BB>> between while(*s++){}; and while(*s) {...;++s;};. Believe me,
 BB>> these differences were not obvious to everybody. You will have to
 BB>> take it up with Darin for anything else.

 BS> loop ... until somecondition;

 BS> do { [...] } while(!somecondition);

 BS> should be the same as far as I can see..

Some prefer to call that a "do" loop because do is a keyword and
it is unique
to that type of loop.

 -=> Bye <=-

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