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

On 12.05.2025 16:34, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 12/05/2025 15:19, Tim Rentsch wrote:

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I hope I'm wrong, but it strikes me that you're trying to pick a fight
with Keith. No doubt you have your reasons, but I would have expected
better from a man of your calibre.
 
Hey! You do you. What would I know? And it really is none of my
business, which is precisely why, back in the day, grown-ups who wanted
to lock horns would take it to email.

It's a social and psychological theme; when a topic gets in a personal
direction and getting disrespectful and that is publicly exchanged the
response (defense or counterstrike) is likely also continued where the
"attack" had taken place. That bickering doesn't go ad infinitum but
it at least leads to long and deep threads (with little value). If the
disputants have a strong backbone - any many here have - it's getting
difficult. But I sense occasional attempts to soothe the situations
and thus interrupt the [perceived] endless process.

  f() { g(); }
  g() { f(); }

without an appropriate 'if' will not be good. An alternative is to not
start that process by f() or g() in the first place. - Just an attempt
to have this meta-topic getting a bit "C"-like. Feel free to ignore it.
:-p

Janis