eles wrote: > It is a shame that compatibility issues prevail over quality and > improvement. Ditching the do...while loop could be unacceptable now, > but why do not propose a better alternative mechanism? That way, we > would have both compatibility and quality. > > eles
Quality prevails over compatibility when the quality gain is deemed to exceed the problems incurred by losing compatibility. In this case, do-while works just fine. Lots of people are used to using it and have never even heard of repeat-until, having never used Pascal or any other language that used it. At this point, C's influence far outweights Pascal's. Also, AFAIK, do-while is not generally a major source of bugs. As such, while another construct might be better, since the current one isn't much of a problem, it's not worth breaking compatibility. If it were shown that do- while was a big problem, then it might be. But at this point, do-while works just fine, so it's not worth changing it. - Jonathan M Davis
