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Re: BY expression

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From: Ghiora Drori
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 03:07
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The reason for designing the FOR the way (to the best of my knowledge) is
so a reader can tell that you are going to be doing a fixed number of loops.
If not you should use a While statement.
In other words self documenting.@
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From: drori@altos86.Altos.COM (Ghiora Drori)
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Subject: Re: BY expression
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Date: 3 Feb 90 03:07:03 GMT
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