Conditional Expressions don't solve the problem

Wed Oct 17 20:47:29 EDT 2001

Kevin D wrote:
> 
> while <condition>; <keyword> <assignment-statement>:
>     <body>

Two drawbacks:

* The condition is written before the assigment, but
  tested after it.

* The statement part is restricted to a single statement
  which must be an assignment.

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