Re: ada loops

[Bill Findlay <yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 30/5/03 17:17, in article wcc1xyg9zoa.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com, "Robert A
Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:

>> ... I 
>> replaced Ijk with temp variable and put Ijk := temp before goto and
>> it solved the problem, but why we can't have final value when we break
>> out of the loop? What's the logic behind this language behaviour?
> 
> So I can be constant inside the loop.  The way to think of it is that a
> new constant called I is created and destroyed *each* time through the
> loop.
> 
> But as you can see, it backfires if you're used to the way Pascal works.

In BSI/ANSI/ISO Standard Pascal it is illegal to assign to the controlled
variable inside the body of a for loop.

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