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From article <6419@polya.Stanford.EDU>, by crew@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Roger Crew):
> Here's a quiz:
> How would you write the following in C?
> 
> 	VAR a, b, c : Char;
> 	...
> 	FOR c = a TO b DO ... END;
> 
> You can even assume that the body of the loop affects neither a nor b.

Probably like this:

	char a, b, c;

	c = a;
	do
	 {
	    grunt();
	 } while (c++ != b);

or like

	for (c = a; c != b; c++)
	 {
	    grunt();
	 }

depending on whether the FOR DO END loop iterates once or never when b == a.
The basic idea is to test for equality rather than relation.
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