From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 27 17:39:59 2000
Subject: Re: Suggestion: add do-enddo(condition)
From: "Jack A Walker" <jawalker at beckman dot com>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:38:56 -0800


I like repeat better due to improved visablity for multi-line loops.

Jack



To:   help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
cc:    (bcc: Jack A Walker/BII)
Subject:  Re: Suggestion:  add do-enddo(condition)


On 27-Jan-2000, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:

| So, we are left with two cases [...]

|   do ... while (condition) [...]

|   do ... until (condition) [...]

| Implementing this would not be hard, if anyone is interested.

OK, since it was relatively easy, I added this to the current
development sources (in the CVS tree now, expect it to show up in a
new bleeding-edge tar file soon).

I'm still open to arguments for using `repeat' instead of `do'.

jwe







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