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From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/10/10
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In article <1dghyt5.oik1lzhxzf2N@n207167116176.inetworld.net>,
Charles H. Sampson <claveman@inetworld.net> wrote:
>
>In my entire career I have rarely written the following construct:
>
>                    <loop head>
>                       <procedure call>
>                    end loop
>
>Actually, I can't remember ever doing it, but I assume that I must have
>at least a few times.

Eh?  How can you write a serious loop without calling a procedure
from inside it?

Do I misunderstand what you wrote?

 -PD

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