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From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/03
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In article <6sidsq$e6c$1@hirame.wwa.com>,
Robert Martin <rmartin@oma.com> wrote:
>
>Correct.  More specifically, I can guarantee that if I put a line of code
>just above the endloop statement (closing brace in my case) it will be
>executed in every iteration.

How would you feel about a loop...exit_when...end_loop structure?
It has only one exit point.  You could still add something to
the end of every iteration by putting it before the exit_when.

This seems pretty safe to me.  Do you see any reason this would
be less manageable than a top- or bottom-exit loop?

 -PD

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