on writing a while loop for rolling two dice

[Hope Rouselle]

"Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper at gmail.com> writes:

> On 04/09/2021 08.53, Hope Rouselle wrote:
>> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> And at this point, it's looking pretty much identical to the for loop
>>> version. Ultimately, they're all the same and you can pick and choose
>>> elements from each of them.
>> I see.  That's why C must have added the do-while, but yeah --- it's
>> not
>> really worth it.
>
> Kernighan and Ritchie agree(d) with you. Per _The C Programming
> Language__:
>   Experience shows that do-while is much less used that while
>   and for.
>
> (Second edition, Section 3.6, page 63)

Special thanks for the reference!  Here's what they say on the first
edition.

  ``As might be expected, do-while is much less used than while and for,
  accounting for perhaps five percent of all loops.''  (First edition,
  section 3.6, page 59.)  

They looked into a sample and decided to remove the statistic. :-)