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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Linear search again
Message-ID: <1024@bu-cs.bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 22:07:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  8 22:07:28 1986
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>		for i in [l..h] until answer <> -maxint do
>
>I think (I am at home or I would check) that the language Mesa,
>developed by Xerox, has a loop of this form...

You will find a rich set of loop constructs like this in PL/I, eg:

	DO I = START TO END WHILE FLAG ^= FALSE ;

etc etc.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University