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pmontgom@oak.math.ucla.edu (Peter Montgomery) writes:

>	Another problem with do..while is that we cannot access
>variables declared inside the block in the loop test.  For example,
>when updating a square root by Newton's method, the code

>		double sqrtx, x;
>		sqrtx = (some approximation to sqrt(x))
>		do {
>		    register const double err = x - sqrtx*sqrtx;
>		    sqrtx += err/(2*sqrtx);
>		} while (fabs(err) > 0.001*x);

>is illegal.  Rather, we must declare "err" in a larger scope.

No, you needn't. The problem can be avoided easily:

		double sqrtx, x;
		sqrtx = (some approximation to sqrt(x))
		do {
		    register const double err = x - sqrtx*sqrtx;
		    sqrtx += err/(2*sqrtx);
		    if(! (fabs(err) > 0.001*x)) break;		/* HA! */
		} while (1);
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