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

[rturpin at my-deja.com]

In article <931lji02ik1 at news2.newsguy.com>,
  "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
> .. I must have written and maintained many tens of thousands
> of lines in it. ..

Another ex-Fortran programmer! This newsgroup must be loaded
with escaped masochists.

> .. Simple GOTO, assigned GOTO, computed GOTO, logical IF,
> arithmetic IF, the DO statement... it's *brimming* with
> complexity! ..

Not to mention entry points, which throw a hidden GOTO into
subroutine CALLs. Ble-e-e-e-ch!

Russell


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