Debugging (was Re: Why not allow empty code blocks?)

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 03:12 am, BartC wrote:

> That's not a fundamental language feature. Repeat-N is. And if properly
> designed, isn't an extra feature at all but a special case of a generic
> loop.

Which means it is NOT a fundamental language feature.

"Repeat N without tracking the loop variable" is just a special case
of "repeat N with tracking the loop variable", where you don't actually
care what the loop variable is.



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