Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })

scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

On 16/04/2025 15:09, Scott Lurndal wrote:

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   for(i = 1; i++ <= 10;)

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So real for loops are a /two-way/ construct?
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In any case, that doesn't do the same as the others, as it iterates over
2 to 11 inclusive, not 1 to 10.

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The point was to execute a loop 10 times, which this does.

You didn't say that was the point.  A very common requirement is to have
a meaningful value for i inside the loop.  `for (i = 1; i <= 10;i ++)`
does that, and is far more idiomatic.

Your example does demonstrate the flexibility of a C-style for loop,
but it's not good code.

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