Re: Bye, bye?

[Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>> >     infinite loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that in
>> >     Ada the typical infinite loop would normally be terminated by
>> >     detonation.
>>
>> Maybe he found out how to do it in C/C++:
>>
>> for (;;)
>>   {

...

>>   }
>   They aren't the same.  Within the C language, that program's single
> task would indeed only be terminated by detonation.  But an Ada program
> could well have other tasks doing useful things at the same time as
> the one task was in an infinite loop.

Well, I had the three ... missing indication that indeed something usefull
is happening inside the inifintive loop. Apart from that - you are right.

But it is a nice examample for readability:

loop
   ...
end loop;

vs.

for (;;)
  {
  ...
  }

C/C++ 10 characters of with 6 special characters - Ada 12 characters of with
only 1 special character. And the (;;) beeing specialy obscure.

Martin

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