Re: Hierarchical States Machines

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
news:1649831.NvcpCQcTn1@linux1.krischik.com...
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> Is there any deepter reason why you did not use:
>
>      loop
>         <<continue>>
>          <bunch of conditions>
>              <Do some processing>
>              if <unusual condition> then
>                    <Handle unusual case>
>                    goto Continue;
>             end if;
>         <bunch of else conditions>
>         end if;
>         <normal processing>;
>     end loop;
>
> i.E. A style guide or a RM I am not aware of?

I usually want the loop head to be re-executed, so that if it gets modified
during maintenance (to a for-loop or a while-loop), it won't be necessary to
restructure the code. Besides, in most of these cases, the loop actually is
a while-loop, walking a list or other data structure.

                 Randy.