for / while else doesn't make sense
Lawrence D’Oliveiro
lawrencedo99 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 21:05:09 EDT 2016
On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 8:52:52 AM UTC+12, BartC wrote:
> One major objection was that C's 'for' isn't really a for-statement at
> all (as it is understood in most other languages that haven't just
> copied C's version), but is closer to a 'while' statement.
Apart from having local loop variables that get initialized just once. Not something you can fake with a “while” statement.
That’s what makes C’s for-statement so versatile.
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