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From: herzog at online.de (Bernhard Herzog)
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Date: 20 May 1999 01:21:56 +0200
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Subject: Concrete Proposal: while ... and while ...
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References: <7hsv80$g9j$1@news.tamu.edu> <y0j675pmg6c.fsf@vier.idi.ntnu.no> <7hufdb$rrh$1@news.tamu.edu> <y0j3e0sn301.fsf@vier.idi.ntnu.no>
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Message-ID: <m3675ozluz.fsf@greebo.nodomain.de>
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X-UID: 1990
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mlh at idt.ntnu.no (Magnus L. Hetland) writes:
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> Maybe -- but then the keyword "while" seems a bit strange...
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> while:
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> line = readline()
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> and while line:
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> print line
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> To me, the "while: line=readline()" sounds like some kind of
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> condition, and it certainly isn't... I would find this more
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> understandable:
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> repeat:
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> line = readline()
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> and while line:
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> print line
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>
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> But then we have another keyword again...
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Well, you could perhaps use 'exec' instead of 'while' or 'repeat'. Of
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course, exec doesn't really indicate that the suite following is a loop.
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--
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Bernhard Herzog | Sketch, a python based drawing program
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herzog at online.de | http://www.online.de/home/sketch/
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