Re: Local vs global variables in ADA

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

>Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
>news:<p0u9qa.4p3.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com>... <snip>
>
>>        And /neither/ structure really handles the form where you
>>        need a bit
>>of processing before you can do the test...
>>
>>
>>        loop
>>                preprocessing which sets flag
>>            exit when <cond>
>>                other processing
>>        end loop.

Isn't this the classic Pascal idiom

while not <cond> do begin
    preprocessing which sets flag

    if not <cond> then begin
       other processing
    end {if};
end {while};

?

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