From: herzog at online.de (Bernhard Herzog)
Date: 20 May 1999 01:21:56 +0200
Subject: Concrete Proposal: while ... and while ...
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mlh at idt.ntnu.no (Magnus L. Hetland) writes:

> Maybe -- but then the keyword "while" seems a bit strange...
> 
> while:
>     line = readline()
> and while line:
>     print line
> 
> To me, the "while: line=readline()" sounds like some kind of
> condition, and it certainly isn't... I would find this more
> understandable:
> 
> repeat:
>     line = readline()
> and while line:
>     print line
> 
> But then we have another keyword again...

Well, you could perhaps use 'exec' instead of 'while' or 'repeat'. Of
course, exec doesn't really indicate that the suite following is a loop.

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