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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: the 'broken' statement
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Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 19:40:27 EDT
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Alas, Mr. Dixon, you have misunderstood Wulf's "FIRST" loop.  The
"not found" part is not executed for each iteration where the
condition is not satisfied -- it is executed ONCE if the loop ends
without finding anything that satisfies the condition.  You can't
do this in C without using a goto, introducing an auxiliary variable,
or breaking the whole thing out into a separate function so you can
use return.  As I said, it is far too late to introduce this into C,
which is how I feel about most of the suggested changes to C.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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