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From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Why are the loops so awkward?
Message-ID: <728.26767558@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 13 Jun 90 05:18:16 GMT
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Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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There are two interpretations of this situation:

1) Unless they're a natural fit to the problem you're trying to solve,
   stay away from zero-based arrays. Only C programmers could love them.
2) FOR-loops also have their problems. So who needs FOR, WHILE and
   REPEAT loops, anyway? Use a LOOP statement with one or more EXITs instead.

Note that neither of these points is necessarily specific to Modula-2.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro
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