Re: Local vs global variables in ADA

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

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"Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> a �crit dans le message news:
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> Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> > In Pascal, a for loop was always done entirely; you have to be aware
that
>
> I'm not sure exactly what that means.  What French word
> were you thinking of for "entirely" ?
>
> Anyway, all the versions of Pascal I know of allow:
>
> FOR     iter  DO     stmt
>
> REPEAT  stmt  UNTIL  cond
>
> WHILE   cond  DO     stmt
>
Sure. By entirely, I meant it is executed  for all values from initial value
to TO value (unless you're playing with the loop control variable, but
that's a different issue).

Of course, I'm talking about "original" Pascal (Wirth), not languages that
have considerable extensions like Turbo.

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