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From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt)
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Subject: Re: Why use TeX if ...
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Date: 14 May 91 12:12:33 GMT
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In article <1991May13.214453.17318@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
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>input is the only form of iteration imaginable. Hence no loop
>constructs. Large parts of the design of TeX follow immediately

No loop constructs? I seem to remember that there is both \loop and
\for available. I've even used one of them once!

Or do I halucinate?

Nicolai