[Oberon] Understanding Oberon07's WHILE loops
chris
chris at gcjd.org
Fri Mar 6 22:25:57 CET 2015
Hello,
is the following understanding correct, that given conditions c1/c2 and
statement sequences s1 and s2:
WHILE c1 DO
s1
ELSIF c2 DO
s2
END;
is equivalent to this code:
LOOP
IF c1 THEN s1
ELSIF c2 THEN s2
ELSE EXIT END
END;
The reason I am unsure is the wording in Wirth's "Differences between
Revised Oberon and Oberon" where it says:
"As long as any of the Boolean expressions yields TRUE, the
corresponding statement sequence is executed."
In my understanding only at most one statement sequence per iteration
is executed and that is the first one for which the condition is true.
Greetings, Chris
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