Il 20/06/2023 09:05, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal ha scritto:
Educators continuously have stupid ideas that don't work out as intended in the
real world. I would love to see them make a real program that does something
difficult and not use early breaks.
I assume them they forbid early exits in functions also or is the loop special
for them?
You don't need something difficult to show that avoiding break is stupid!
Just take a loop searching a linked list for a specific item. You must
test two conditions: item found or end of list. But the item you're
searching might be the last one, so you can't test next=Nil at the
beginning of a do-while loop. A repeat-until can't be used because the
list might be empty.
I prefer in those cases use a function, and exit instead of break, so
that the caller can easily test how the loop was terminated, but it's
just a matter of tastes.
Giuliano
--
Do not do to others as you would have them do to you.They might have different
tastes.
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