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31 Oct 2024 19:24:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Next Generation SDL Brainstorming  
From: clipka
Date: 27 Mar 2009 17:05:00
Message: <web.49cd3f1aad594047208afb30@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>
> > REPEAT
> >   ...
> > UNTIL (condition);
>
> > which did exactly what I always expected it to do: Execute the list of
> > statements, *then* check for the condition, and if it didn't hold true, repeat
> > the whole smash over and over again.
>
>   The problem with that is that it will execute the body always at least
> once. If it should never be executed (which isn't even a rare occurrence),
> you will need to add a conditional around the entire repeat-until loop,
> and the condition will be a duplicate of the 'until' condition.

I didn't claim that to be the ideal loop. I just said it was the most intuitive
in my eyes.


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