do ... while loop

Cliff Crawford cjc26 at nospam.cornell.edu
Fri Oct 15 18:03:22 EDT 1999


Pada 14 Oct 1999 23:10:17 GMT, Martijn Faassen bilang:
| Gordon McMillan <gmcm at hypernet.com> wrote:
| > If Python were Puritan, you wouldn't have for loops. Any loop 
| > can be coded as
| [snip]
| > The fact that "for" exists and "while" takes a condition (and 
| > both take an "else" clause) is symptomatic of the 
| > insidious Dutch tendency to permissiveness.
| 
| Which is why those Mayflower people left the Netherlands for North
| America way back when. Too permissive. :) 
| 
| it's-okay-to-call-us-insidious-ly yours,

Eh?  Weren't the people on the Mayflower from Britain?

trying-to-remember-the-story-of-thanksgiving-from-his-youth-ly yrs, Cliff


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