[Oberon] Re (2): Tidyness of iteration.

peter at easthope.ca peter at easthope.ca
Thu Nov 17 19:46:57 CET 2016


From:	Bob Walkden <bob at web-options.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2016 19:35:14 +0000
> The read-ahead technique is very valuable in structurin=
> g the software to match the structure of the input stream. 

Relying your authority.

> If any of those are to be discarded, let it be LOOP, which encourages badly=
> -structured code.

The benefit or need for one entrance and one exit to a loop is 
understandable.  I'm not convinced of the benefit from requiring the 
entrance and exit to be adjacent.

Nevertheless, for forward compatibility I'm excluding LOOP.

Thanks,            ... Lyall E.

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