From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful Date: 1998/08/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 381761136 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: skule.ecf Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) References: Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar wrote: > >A postscript by the way is that I am not clear as to what language is >being used for the above code, but I am assuming that, unlike the case >in many languages, the until test is simply a negative while, and not >a test at the end of the loop. A test at the end of the loop is of >course quite incorrect. The language is Eiffel. The test is performed at the start of each iteration. >Personally I don't like using until as the >negation of while, since it is so well established by custom that >until means an end of the loop test. Fair enough. I tend to think that the fact that the test comes before the loop body makes the order of execution fairly self-evident. -PD -- -- Patrick Doyle doylep@ecf.toronto.edu