"PoD" <pod### [at] merlinnetau> wrote in message
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> Axel Baune wrote:

> >Problem
> > two: What if you want to increment the variable in non deterministic
> > steps, e.g. different steps width in each loop or you didn't want to
> > increment in each loop. Than you will need the old while-construct,
and
> > why blowing up Pov-Script with higly specialised commands if you
already
> > have flexibler and more general commends for them? As a more skilled
> > programmer you can always write macros for specialised problems.
>
> Then use a while loop and nothing is lost, except that you've made
your
> script hard to read.  There's probably an easier way to do it using
> for()

For example:

for (I = 1; I <= something; ) {
    // loop body here
    I += non_deterministic_increment;
}

Johannes

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