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Article #1332Re: Oberon's FOR
From: Robert Lichtenberger
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 06:41
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 06:41
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Eric W. Nikitin (enikitin@junior.wariat.org) wrote: : Questions about the FOR statement in Oberon(-2): : : Is the value of the counter variable undefined upon exiting the loop - : as it is in Pascal and Modula-2? : : Also, I've found that in both Oberon/F and Oberon V4 for Windows, I could : change the counter variable within the FOR loop. I thought this was illegal : in Modula-2 - and that Oberon(-2)'s FOR loop was the same as Modula-2's. : : Is it legal (as per the language definition) to change the counter within : the loop? Yes it is legal, but it's _very bad_ style ;-) -- Robert Lichtenberger tanis@sport2.uibk.ac.at k3086e1@cxmeta.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at http://sport2.uibk.ac.at/~tanis
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.uibk.ac.at!not-for-mail From: tanis@sport2.uibk.ac.at (Robert Lichtenberger) Newsgroups: comp.lang.oberon Subject: Re: Oberon's FOR Date: 15 Apr 1996 06:41:06 GMT Organization: University of Innsbruck, Austria Message-ID: <4ksr22$s3v@dm2.uibk.ac.at> References: <4kks25$hru@wariat.wariat.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: sport2.uibk.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0]