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| Date | 2011-11-09 01:08 -0500 |
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| From | Joe Wright <joewwright@comcast.net> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: John McCarthy died today. |
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On 11/8/2011 19:35, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Joe Wright<joewwright@comcast.net> writes:
>> On 11/8/2011 17:10, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>> James Kuyper<jameskuyper@verizon.net> writes:
>>> [...]
>>>> There's a need I've felt for a long time, and I just realized that
>>>> there's a feature that could be defined which would meet that need. I'm
>>>> inventing this idea while I'm writing this, so please be patient with
>>>> any lack of elegance.
>>>>
>>>> What I want is to define a condition for a looping construct, and two
>>>> separate blocks of code that get executed repeatedly until the condition
>>>> is met, but the condition is tested between the two blocks, rather than
>>>> before or after a single block. It would be sort-of half-way between a
>>>> while() and a do-while(). I'm horrible at naming things - I'll just use
>>>> "token_n" to indicate the new as-yet unnamed keywords. The grammar
>>>> productions for this new kind of iteration statement would be:
>>>>
>>>> token_1 statement_1 while (condition) statement_2 token_2
>>>> token_1 declaration while (condition) statement_3 token_2
>>>
>>> while (1) {
>>> int c = getchar();
>>> if (c == EOF) break;
>>> process_char(c);
>>> }
>>>
>> Who are you and what have you done to Keith? He cannot write anything like
>> this.
>
> Huh? Please elaborate.
>
while (1) and break; ? Edsger is spinning. Plus it's ugly.
--
Joe Wright
"If you rob Peter to pay Paul you can depend on the support of Paul."
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