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- Subject: Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy
- From: David Kastrup <dak@...>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:39:24 +0100
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Majic <majic.one@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> How about `skip' or `next'?
>
> Too likely to be used as identifiers. In particular "next" is pretty
> much the established standard link name for linked lists. "skip" is
> also likely to be used in skip lists or as a variable name for
> strides.
By the way, it would also be possible to just use "repeat" which already
is a reserved word. If its use is restricted to the same places where
"break" and "return" are allowed, I don't think that there is syntactic
ambiguity.
--
David Kastrup
- References:
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, Florian Weimer
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, Kelley, Brian
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, Matthew Wild
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, Kelley, Brian
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, Matthew Wild
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, David Given
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, David Kastrup
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, Mark Hamburg
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, David Kastrup
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, Majic
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, David Kastrup