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Re: while expression feature proposal

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On 2012-10-24, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:

>| I must say I really like the parity of Dan's
>|   while EXPR as VAR:
>|      BLOCK
>| proposal with the "with" statement.
>
> Well, it's nice. But usually EXPR will be a boolean.

I guess that depends on what sort of programs you write.  In my
experience, EXPR is usually a read from a file/socket/pipe that
returns '' on EOF. If VAR is not '', then you process, then you
process it inside the loop.

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Re: while expression feature proposal Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2012-10-25 09:26 +1100
  Re: while expression feature proposal Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-24 15:37 -0700
    Re: while expression feature proposal Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-24 15:47 -0700
    Re: while expression feature proposal Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2012-10-25 09:58 +1100
  Re: while expression feature proposal Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2012-10-25 11:44 +0200
  Re: while expression feature proposal Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-25 14:15 +0000
    Re: while expression feature proposal Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2012-10-25 18:15 +0200

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