From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Invade wikipedia!
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:31:57 GMT
Date: 2009-02-28T00:31:57+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1C%pl.590807$yE1.93557@attbi_s21> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49a877d2$0$31331$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net>
Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
> If you do this (remove the off-by-one decrement before loop
> termination), you end up with two exits from a loop.
> Algorithm guys might not find this clean at all...
The "loop and a half" is a very common paradigm. Pascal, which enforced the
1-exit-only philosophy (excluding gotos), didn't handle it well. The clearest
way to express it is with an exit statement, which is why well designed
SW-engineering languages such as Ada include it.
--
Jeff Carter
"I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were
here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic
frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen
in this day and age."
Blazing Saddles
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2009-02-24 11:03 Invade wikipedia! Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-02-24 13:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-24 14:49 ` (see below)
2009-02-24 15:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-24 15:22 ` (see below)
2009-02-24 15:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-24 16:32 ` (see below)
2009-02-24 17:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-24 14:50 ` Martin
2009-02-24 15:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-24 19:48 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-24 20:34 ` sjw
2009-02-24 21:27 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-02-24 21:48 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-24 22:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-02-24 23:03 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-02-24 23:28 ` Martin
2009-02-24 23:33 ` (see below)
2009-02-25 0:08 ` Martin
2009-02-25 0:52 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-02-25 1:45 ` (see below)
2009-02-25 16:38 ` Martin
2009-02-25 21:03 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-02-25 8:05 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-02-25 8:59 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-25 16:10 ` (see below)
2009-02-25 18:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-25 18:53 ` (see below)
2009-02-25 19:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-27 23:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-02-28 6:31 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-28 8:49 ` Ivan Levashew
2009-02-25 19:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-25 22:48 ` Robert A Duff
2009-02-26 3:21 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-26 10:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-26 3:20 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-25 15:57 ` (see below)
2009-02-25 22:14 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-02-24 23:53 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-25 0:07 ` Martin
2009-02-24 23:02 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-02-24 14:52 ` Peter Hermann
2009-02-24 15:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-24 15:53 ` Peter Hermann
2009-02-24 16:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-24 16:32 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-02-24 16:52 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-02-24 18:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-24 18:46 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-02-24 19:42 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-24 19:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-24 20:08 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-24 23:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-24 23:47 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-26 0:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-26 3:33 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-26 6:38 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-25 22:15 ` Ivan Levashew
2009-02-24 19:29 ` Martin Krischik
2009-02-25 22:31 ` Ivan Levashew
2009-02-25 23:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-02-26 0:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-26 8:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-26 10:40 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-02-26 13:53 ` Ivan Levashew
2009-02-26 14:13 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-02-26 15:42 ` Peter Hermann
2009-02-26 16:37 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-02-26 17:57 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-02-26 14:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-26 17:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-26 18:16 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-02-27 11:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-27 17:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-27 23:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-28 0:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2009-02-28 5:26 ` Ivan Levashew
2009-02-28 6:27 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-28 6:40 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-02-28 7:01 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-28 11:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-03-03 14:16 ` Anders Wirzenius
2009-03-03 15:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-04 5:52 ` Anders Wirzenius
2009-03-04 9:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-04 13:31 ` Stuart
2009-03-04 13:20 ` Stuart
2009-03-04 13:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-04 18:41 ` Stuart
2009-03-04 20:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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