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Re: goto and label (cont)

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg57889] Re: goto and label (cont)
• From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
• Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:35:49 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 6/10/05 at 2:29 AM, carlw at u.washington.edu (Carl K. Woll) wrote:

>"Bill Rowe" <readnewsciv at earthlink.net> wrote in message
>news:d892ej$sa3$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>>The same functionality as a do while loop can be implemented in
>>Mathematica as a While loop as follows:

>>While[True, do something; If[test, Break[]]]

>A simpler way to get the functionality of a do while loop is to use
>the single argument form of While:

>While[
>do something; test]

>Ray Koopman used this construction in a very nice way to get the
>functionality of Guy's spaghetti code. I quote his construction
>below:

Yes, I saw his post. In addition, he takes advantage of the documented execution order for an Or which yeilds a particularly elegant solution. Much nicer than mine.
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