Re: loop step function

[Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.lmco.com>]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
> In article <32E93C0B.36A@cloud9.net>, Paul Van Bellinghen <pvanbell@cloud9.net> writes:
> > I'm fairly new to ADA. I have coded in PASCAL, FORTRAN, C, and assembly
...
> > seems to be an obvious omission in the ADA language. The FOR loop does
> > not have a "STEP" option. In order to perform a loop function using a
> > variable's range of values but in steps greater than the variable
> > kernel, you seem to have to use a WHILE loop with the variable
> > incremented within the loop by the step size. Is there a more elegant
...
> As regards FOR loops, you could say:
> 
>         for BY_ONE from 1 to 20 loop
>                 declare
>                         USEFUL_VALUE : INTEGER := BY_ONE*2;
>                 begin
>                         my_procedure ( USEFUL_VALUE );
>                 end;
>         end loop;

Wouldn't that allocate and deallocate stack space in a loop? Yuck.

Why not just replace -
                         my_procedure ( USEFUL_VALUE );
with 
                         my_procedure ( USEFUL_VALUE*2 );

In this case, though, the newbie may be right. The while loop is liable
to be more efficient
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