From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 27 10:09:50 2000
Subject: Re: Suggestion:  add do-enddo(condition)
From: Etienne Grossmann <etienne at isr dot isr dot ist dot utl dot pt>
To: a dot s dot hodel at eng dot auburn dot edu, jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu,         walter@pctc.chemie.uni-erlangen.de
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:08:15 GMT

  Hello,

  I also missed the original post; the do/enddo or do/while construct indeed would simplify
coding in many cases.

  Etienne

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>>>>>> "John" == John W Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> writes:
simpler to write loops for fitting and similar things.
> 
> John> I don't recall seeing any responses to this message, so maybe there
> John> are not very many people who have strong feelings about it one way or
> John> the other.  Is anyone else interested in having this construct
> John> available in Octave?
> 
> I have not seen a reply too.  But having both kinds of loops can make
> the code much cleaner in some cases.  And the lack of any reply may
> depend on other tools like the always referenced 'matlab' not having
> this.  I do not know this package, only 'pari/gp' which comes with GPL
> (ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari) , and the comercial
> package 'mupad'.

I think I just missed the original post.  I've been implementing

    do 
        x = blah()
    enddo (condition)

with



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