OpenEuphoria

Re: Labeled Loops?

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at ya?oo.com> May 13, 2008
• 1208 views

Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> c.k.lester wrote:
> > 
> > > I think for consistency, for and while loops should be labeled the same.
> > 
> > They're not consistent now... so what do you mean?
> 
> The means of labeling and addressing them:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> while 1 label "top" do
>     for a = 1 to 10 label "mid" do
>     end for
> end while
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> I do not think you should refer to the for loop as "a", I think when you want
> a label, you give it one for consistencies sake.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar
> <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>

Just to be clear, for labeled loops, I would hope that the programmer would
choose a better variable name than "a".

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j.