• Taro Kawagishi <tarok acm.org> Jul 18 2007

Taro Kawagishi <tarok acm.org> writes:

Don Clugston Wrote:

 Forth has this construct in the form of a BEGIN ... WHILE ... REPEAT loop. I 
 don't think I've seen it elsewhere, though. Uses for it come up fairly 
 frequently in my experience, but as others have mentioned, the for(;;) { aa;
if 
 (cond) break; bb; } idiom isn't too bad.
 Walter uses 'goto' more than any other programmer I've ever seen. Search
through 
 Phobos and the DMD front-end for 'goto', and see how many could be replaced by 
 your do-while loop. Is it a significant fraction of the total?


It is great to know forth has a similar construct.
I agree with you that many types of loops can't be written the way I proposed.

-Taro