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Re: Labeled Loops?

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at ?owg?r.com> May 13, 2008
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Jason Gade wrote:
>  
> Just to be clear, for labeled loops, I would hope that the programmer would
> choose a better variable name than "a".
> 

Depends on how complex the loop is for me. If it's only a few lines, I'll
commonly use a,b,c or i,j,k for loop variables.

for a in 1 to length(lines) do
    line = lines[a]
    puts(output, trim(" \t\r\n", line) & "\n")
end for

You'll find code like that in my production apps. Now, am I going to do a lot of
processing on it? Is the loop many lines long? Sure, a more appropriate name will
be given, but in the above example? nah, a is just fine for me.

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com