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  Re: I'm missing something here... Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> - 2016-01-12 08:24 +0000

#101527 — Re: I'm missing something here...

On 12/01/16 07:13, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 11Jan2016 23:55, Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> wrote:
>> Is it complaining about that, or is it because the 'for' loop body
>> might be executed zero times?
>
> The former. Almost any loop _might_ be executed zero times. Compilers
> and linters etc should only complain if they can prove the loop is
> always executed zero times.

Sure, but Skip was thinking he'd found a bug - I was just raising the 
possibility that the bug could have been that the loop was (incorrectly) 
determined to be executed zero times for some reason.

E.

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