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Re: Random function - PASCAL

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From: Dr John Stockton
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:00
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JRS:  In article <38515400@news.datacomm.ch> of Fri, 10 Dec 1999
18:47:01 in news:comp.lang.pascal.borland, Ars�ne von Wyss
<avonwyss@gmx.net> wrote:
>Hermann Kraus <hnkraus@be-ne.de> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
>385107DE.9C386932@be-ne.de...
>> Arno Fleck schrieb:
>
>> > And here's another possibility: ;-)
>> > WHILE True DO DoSomething;
>>
>> But how to stop then programm?
>
>Using Halt (terminate program), Exit (terminate current procedure/function)
>or Break (exit loop) in the "infinite" loop.

Admittedly inelegant ; but, in addition,
        while true do begin
          Write('  x? ') ; Readln(x)
          process(x) end ;
can be stopped with ^C; and that's adequate for a Noddy test program.
 
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From: Dr John Stockton <jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Random function - PASCAL
Date: 1999/12/11
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