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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@no.sp.am.btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Local vs global variables in ADA
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"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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>         Using just a while loop, as in many languages, the above turns
into:
>
>         (initial) preprocessing which may set flag
>         while not flag
>                 other processing
>                 preprocessing which sets flag
>         wend

AKA the "Read Ahead Principle" so beloved of Jackson Structured Programming
and COBOL-heads.

It wasn't that bad when the preprocessing bit was farmed off to a subpogram
and you wrote your programs using a decent JSP tool.