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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: do while loop help ( newbie)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:07:18 GMT
Date: 2006-02-05T02:07:18+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <q5dFf.10305$1n4.6540@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1139094979.043765.42770@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

isaac2004 wrote:

>    while Number /= NewNumber loop

Newnumber is uninitialized the 1st time you get here.

>      Number := NewNumber;

Now Number = Newnumber, so the loop will exit after at most 1 time through the 
loop, so why have a loop at all?

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
is no basis for a system of government."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-05  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-04 23:16 do while loop help ( newbie) isaac2004
2006-02-05  2:01 ` jimmaureenrogers
2006-02-05  8:03   ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-05 12:18   ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-05  2:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
     [not found] ` <bjfau11bp7g4b5id8vprbai6bc81qfgr96@4ax.com>
2006-02-05  4:39   ` isaac2004
2006-02-05 21:25     ` Björn Persson
2006-02-05 22:25       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-06  1:01         ` Björn Persson
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