for / while else doesn't make sense

[Rustom Mody]

On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 4:18:02 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Christopher Reimer:
> 
> > Back in the early 1980's, I grew up on 8-bit processors and latin-1 was
> > all we had for ASCII.
> 
> You really were very advanced. According to <URL:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#History>, ISO 8859-1 was
> standardized in 1985. "Eight-bit-cleanness" became a thing in the early
> 1990's.
> 
> Where I was in late 1980's, the terminals were still 7-bit, and
> instead of ASCII, national 7-bit character set variants were being used.
> For example, you might see Pascal code like this:
> 
>    ä return the net å
>    ret := grossÄunitÅ * grossRate
> 
> <URL: http://www.aivosto.com/vbtips/charsets-7bit.html>
> 
> > Over the last several days from reading this thread (and variations
> > thereof), l've seen several extended characters that I have no clue on
> > how to reproduce on my keyboard. I haven't embraced extended character
> > sets yet, which means I still think of ASCII characters as being 0
> > through 255 (8-bit).
> 
> But Latin-1 is on your fingertips? ¡Qué bueno! Entonces sabes dónde
> están las teclas españolas, ¿no?

Thanks to this (sub)thread Ive added a new section: "Lemma: 7=8"
here http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html

All contributors gratefully acknowledged!