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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: the 'broken' statement
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Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 19:17:02 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 19:17:02 1983
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Bill Wulf suggested some years ago that in addition to the FOR loop,
which is good for operating on all elements of a data structure, there
ought to be a FIRST loop for searching data structures:

	FIRST i IN something-that-generates-a-sequence-of-values
	SUCHTHAT condition
	DO
		found it
	ELSE
		not found
	END

(Ignore the exact punctuation, it was something like that.)  I always
thought this was a pretty neat idea.  It's far too late to retrofit
it to C, of course.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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