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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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