OpenEuphoria

Re: Goto (Was Re: Open Source)

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agri?ultu?e.gouv.fr> Oct 29, 2007
• 1022 views

Chris Bensler wrote:
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > 
> > c.k.lester wrote:
> > > 
> > > CChris wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > loop do
> > > > -- some code
> > > > until some_condition
> > > > end loop
> > > 
> > > The "end loop" is redundant, isn't it?
> > 
> > Sure, but in keeping with all other Euphoria code block syntactic markers.
> > 
> > CChris
> 
> why not the following?
> }}}
<eucode>
> until CONDITION do
>   BLOCK
> end until
> </eucode>
{{{


Because the condition then appears at the top of the loop, while it is tested at
the end only. I bet people will complain of the above being too similar to a
while loop. I thought it more intuitive the other way, but have no serious
objection to the shorter form either.

CChris

CChris