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From: migod@csri.toronto.edu (Mike Godfrey)
Subject: Re: "continue" in Turing (and C)
Message-ID: <8901311709.AA16562@carlton.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <8901280522.AA16921@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> <5160012@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 12:09:19 EST

    Someone wrote:
    >>> Does Turing have an analogue of "continue" (as in C)?


    I wrote:
    >> Hmm, I can only guess that you mean "Does Turing have some sort of 
    >> do-nothing statement?"


    Then marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Marc 'Sphere' Sabatella) wrote:
    >
    >No, that is not the same thing:


*sigh*  I was afraid of this.

Yes, I'm afraid that I had my Fortran thinking cap on when I posted this.  
A friend pointed this out to me and I cancelled the article.  Apparently my 
faith in the cancel command (I was about to say "C" there, but I realized in 
the nick of time that this might start yet another misunderstanding :-) was 
unjustified.

As to the original question ("Does Turing have a analogue of C's `continue'"?)
the answer is no.  Turing does not have such a bird (although I am told that
Numerical Turing does).  This is not believed to be a short-coming of the 
language.

-- 

Mike Godfrey				 "You say `Car-meen-a'
Department of Computer Science	          And I say `Car-mine-a'
University of Toronto			  Let's call the whole thing Orff."
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