A single, general looping construct? (was: why no "do : until"?)

[Greg Jorgensen]

<rturpin at my-deja.com> wrote in message:

> A couple of decades ago, when the programming journals
> were full of arguments about the "right" control
> statements for structured programming, someone proposed
> a single iteration statement that generalized (a) the
> "while" statement, (b) the "do .. until" statement,
> and (c) the loop with an exit in the middle. I forget

Prime's INFO*BASIC (a version of Pick BASIC) had that loop construct. It was
one of the best things about that language.

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Greg Jorgensen
PDXperts
Portland, Oregon, USA
gregj at pobox.com