why no "do : until"?

[Steve Lamb]

On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:06:33 GMT, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>Requiring edits to two possibly widely seperated places in the source code to
>change a single algorithm value is (in my experience) going to cause a bug
>some day.

    Makes you wonder how all those people who had to init variables in the
past got through life with such problems facing them, huh?  I mean, the
variable is right there before the loop.  The horrors, the agony, oh my, this
is worse than y2k!  Call out the national guard, the world is going to END
because someone cant make an edit in two OBVIOUS places!  Hell, I'm more
concerned with a lack of braces that vim can spot so I can bounce on the % key
to get from one end of a block to the other quickly than with a variable being
unedited when it is sitting at the top of the loop.  Guess which one I do
thousands of times more than the other?  Not saying Python needs braces, just
pointing out there are elements of it which run against other languages and
the tools devised for them that this is so insignificant it is a wonder anyone
has the energy to argue the matter for over a WEEK now.  GET OVER IT!

    Sorry, I just don't see it that way, esp. in cases like this.  It seems
that CLP is more concerned with the more anal retentive notions of its while
loop than anything else.

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