On Wed, 2006-25-01 at 12:35 -0700, Mark Edgar wrote: > Dahl's loop-while-repeat statement is more > general than either of the two other loops, and it allows for more > elegant expression: > > loop > line = io.read() > while line > io.write(line) > repeat > > I'm not seriously proposing this change for Lua, but I've been wanting > to use this control structure ever since I learned of it and I know of > no language which implements it. That smells Eiffelish to me. It's been a long time since I toyed with Eiffel, though, so I could be wrong. -- Michael T. Richter Email: ttmrichter@gmail.com, mtr1966@hotpop.com MSN: ttmrichter@hotmail.com, mtr1966@hotmail.com; YIM: michael_richter_1966; AIM: YanJiahua1966; ICQ: 241960658; Jabber: mtr1966@jabber.cn
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