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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: taken -vs- untaken branches, Fortran FREQUENCY declaration
Message-ID: <2652@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 22:48:05 GMT
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I will note in passing that the assumption that continuing a loop is more
likely than terminating it is often wrong.  Loops of the form:

while (error is present) {
	try to fix it;
}

are not all that uncommon.
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Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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