From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 27 18:23:58 2000
Subject: Re: Suggestion:  add do-enddo(condition)
From: "Johan Kullstam" <kullstam at ne dot mediaone dot net>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: 27 Jan 2000 19:24:04 -0500

"John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> writes:

> 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'.

i prefer "repeat/until".  besides an irrational fondness for pascal, i
think it makes for clearer code.

the octave parser can easily see the context of the word "while".
but what about
1) the programmer/user,
2) emacs (octave.el)?
repeat/until would be easy and unabiguous for all of the code readers.

-- 
J o h a n  K u l l s t a m
[kullstam at ne dot mediaone dot net]
Don't Fear the Penguin!



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