Loop syntax (was re: Tagged loops)

["Aaron Brown" <arundelo@...>]

Sam Roberts:

> >   Knuth - Structured Programming with Goto Statments:
> >
> >   http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pdf

Rici Lake:

> Interesting rereading that article, though, after all
> these years.

> The loop ... while condition; ... repeat; syntax suggested
> by Knuth on pages 279-280 of that article is pretty
> similar to (a subset of) the syntax suggested by Shivers
> in the paper I referenced in my post last year on the
> subject,

The post in question, and the Olin Shivers paper:

 http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-10/msg00040.html
 http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~shivers/papers/loop.pdf

I remembered reading that post and skimming the Shivers, but
I didn't remember that I got anything specific about it.
Apparently I did, though, because lately I've found myself
thinking how many loops would be made simpler with a syntax
like

 loop
   statement
   statement
 breakif expression
   statement
   statement
 end

Now I've downloaded the Shivers and the Knuth and will
carefully read them both.

--
Aaron