Re: Maybe of interest to people interested in programming languages?

"Friedrich Dominicus" <just-for-news-frido@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
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message news:874p8lxe4f.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> scholz.lothar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 writes:
>
>> On 23 Mai, 21:37, thomas.mer...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>> Speaking about programming language development.
>>> Did you look at what other languages do?

> But I Seed7
> does not have one loop construct with a sliding exit condition.
> We could have wrote
>
> loop until some_exit
>
> ....
> endloop
>
> loop
>        do this
>        do that
>        be happy
> until unhappy
>      do something else
>      yet somethin gelse
> endloop
>
> or
>
> loop
> xyz
> abc
> until exit_condition
> endloop
> so the until is "sliding ;-".

That's a weird looking loop. Unless 'until exitcond' is just the same as
'if 
exitcond then break'?

If so then you may be out of luck as I think seed7 doesn't like 'hidden' 
gotos like this, but the guy himself will probably confirm this soon.

-- 
Bartc