Re: Anyone want to design a language?

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 1990 15:21

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In c-ish syntax, how about this as the loop construct:

	while (expr)
		statement
	while (expr)
		statement
	...

Explicit breaks or continues would be deprecated...

The for loop would come out as:

	initial
	while (test)
		body
	while (true)
		increment
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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a language?
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Date: 3 Mar 90 15:21:57 GMT
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