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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: do-while construct
Message-ID: <8661@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 8 Oct 88 02:53:46 GMT
References: <1511@pur-phy>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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The
	loop	stuff
	until	condition
		more_stuff
	pool
construct is the most general form of loop.  It would be useful
if it were the ONLY loop construct in an Algol-like language.
However, C has several loop constructs for reasons of convenience,
and the exit from the middle of a loop is easily accomplished:
	for(;;) {
		stuff
	if(condition) break;
		more_stuff
	}
so that there is no real need to add such a construct.  Save it
for a new programming language (D?).