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- Subject: Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy
- From: Doug Currie <doug.currie@...>
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:20:34 -0500
On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:06 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Different semantics in repeat-until from the C semantics (and strictly
> speaking, C does not have something called repeat-until anyway) for
> "continue" are something I continue to claim as useful.
Yes. I would also expect continue to return to the top of the repeat loop. It's a much more useful option than jumping to the until-test, and avoids the scoping issue, as you pointed out.
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- References:
- 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
- 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, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy, David Kastrup