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From: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (rogerson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: new do-while syntax
Message-ID: <2330@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 88 15:21:05 GMT
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	Actor, an OOPS programming language for Microsoft Windows, uses
	the following construct for controlling loops:

		loop
		  ...
		while ( )
		  ...
		endloop

	To get the normal while-do or do-while it would look like:
		loop while ( )  /* while - do */
		  ...
		endloop
	and
		loop 		/* do - while */
		  ...
		while ( )
		endloop

	This is much more readable then the proposed C version, but then
	it would be incompatible with current C.

	A simple solution to the problem is to use a for statement and
	a break statement.  This is like Modula II which has the
	LOOP-EXIT-END control statement.

	-----Dale
		Rogerson-----