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In article <11047@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) writes:
}While it is commonly believed that it is impossible to change the
}index variable in a for loop, it is possible to do so.  Consider the
}following program.
}
[code deleted for brevity]
}
}David Gast
}gast@cs.ucla.edu
}{ucbvax,rutgers}!ucla-cs!gast

I don't know about Turbo Pascal 4.0, but versions 1 through 3 use a "hidden"
variable for the loop counter, so you can change the visible loop counter
to your heart's content and the loop will still execute exactly the same
number of times.

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