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mikey@banzai.ontek.com (Mike Lee) wrote:
>Back when I was a wee little laddy and stumbled across my first "while"
>statement, I initially misinterpreted the definition.  When I finally
>understood how it worked I was rather disappointed.  I took the "while"
>to mean that statements in the block should be executed until the
>condition is no longer true, and then should stop immediately, _even in
>the middle of the block_.

Yeah, I've heard that this is a common misunderstanding for beginning
programmers. My first "language" was machine code for a programmable
calculator. I used to do my math and physics homework on it in college. My next
language was 6800 assembler. Since I started with extremely low-level
languages, I don't remember having an expectation that "while" or "until"
behaved in this way. I wonder if the languages that one first uses is the
determining factor.

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Paul Long                               45:29:14N 122:48:09W
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    "Where time or intelligence are lacking, a goto may do the job."
        - M.E. Hopkins, "A Case for the GOTO," 1972.