From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 27 01:32:04 2000
Subject: Suggestion:  add do-enddo(condition)
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Thomas Walter <walter at pctc dot chemie dot uni-erlangen dot de>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 01:32:20 -0600 (CST)

On 19-Oct-1999, Thomas Walter <walter at pctc dot chemie dot uni-erlangen dot de> wrote:

| for some programing logic, I want to suggest to add a
| 
|   do
|     ...
|   enddo (CONDITION)
| 
| to the octave interpreter.
| 
| Pros and cons?

Do you expect this to execute the loop as long as CONDITION is true,
with a minimum of one trip through?  If so, then I think

  do
  while (CONDITION)

would make that intention clearer, but it might also make it hard to
spot errors, since `while (CONDITION)' is already used to begin
loops.  (I don't think this is such a problem for C since braces are
used to delimit the body of the loop.)

I don't recall seeing any responses to this message, so maybe there
are not very many people who have strong feelings about it one way or
the other.  Is anyone else interested in having this construct
available in Octave?

Thanks,

jwe



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