GOTOphobia Considered Harmful (In C)

Re:GOTOphobia Considered Harmful (In C) by spacechild1 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @07:42PM (#34951559)

Ah, right, I misread your post. DO WHILE is indeed a "normal" while loop. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent to "do { ... } while", as found in most C-style languages.

> There seems to be a unfortunate inconsistency in the naming of this thing.

Well, Fortran is older than C, so you cannot really blame them :-)

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Re:GOTOphobia Considered Harmful (In C) by bee_rider on Sunday February 26, 2023 @08:26PM (#34951864)

The funny thing is, I mostly program in Fortran (thus the interest in this construct). It is nice for expressing “this iterative method must be run at least once.” Unfortunately at some point I absorbed the name that comes from the C-ism, haha.

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Re:GOTOphobia Considered Harmful (In C) by spacechild1 on Monday February 27, 2023 @04:51AM (#34954659)

May I ask what field you're working in? Physics?

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Re:GOTOphobia Considered Harmful (In C) by int_19h on Monday February 27, 2023 @04:58AM (#34954693)

A less ambiguous name for those is repeat/until, as seen in Pascal and its descendants - I don't recall any language that uses that syntax for anything other than a postcondition loop.

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