From: Bill Greene <wrg@Ganymede.com>
Subject: Re: checking a loop execution
Date: 2000/04/24
Date: 2000-04-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3904AD74.7103@Ganymede.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3901fc68.0@silver.truman.edu
Chad R. Meiners wrote:
>
> .... However, the use of a for loop sets up the expectation that the loop
> is going to execute a predetermined amount of times. Therefore putting
> other exit conditions inside of a for loop is misleading to the reader. ...
My expectation would be that "for I in 1 .. N loop" executes *at most* N
times.
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2000-04-19 0:00 checking a loop execution pumilia
2000-04-19 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-04-20 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-20 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-04-20 0:00 ` Andreas Schulz
2000-04-20 0:00 ` chad
2000-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-22 0:00 ` Chad R. Meiners
2000-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Bill Greene [this message]
2000-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-20 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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