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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: an infinate loop
Date: 16 Jul 2001 17:59:45 -0400
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> <snip good advice>
> For another, most of your "exit" statements are all at the tops of the loops. In
> those cases you should probably reverse the test logic and use "while" loops
> instead. 

This is a matter of personal style. For myself, I _much_ prefer "exit"
statments to "while" statements. I just find it clearer.

> <snip more good advice>

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-- Stephe