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From: milne@ics.uci.edu (Alastair Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Problem in Turbo Pascal 4.0
Message-ID: <25F89C42.24904@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 90 06:18:42 GMT
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as02@bunny.gte.com writes:

>Never use real numbers for a loop count; use an integer counter .

   That is to say, use the most appropriate *scalar* for what your
   counter is indexing: INTEGER, CHAR, Fruit, Colours, etc..

   But as <as02@bunny.gte.com> so rightly says, the counter must not
   be a non-discrete type.  Didn't Turbo complain rather loudly?


   Alastair Milne