I'm still not convinced this topic is not some kind of elaborate joke. On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 1:11:04 PM UTC+2, Hugh Fisher wrote: > > > Another observation from this novice Go programmer: I'm puzzled why > there's no while statement. > > I know it's possible to use a for, but it doesn't feel right to me. I > always > think of for loops as for iterating over data structures. Originally just > arrays, but languages like Python and Objective-C have extended for > loops to other collections as well. "Looping until some condition is met" > for me is a different control structure and needs a different keyword. > > There'd be overlap with the for statement, but if-then-else and switch > with boolean case overlap too. > > And since while has been a reserved keyword in a lot of programming > languages for many decades, I would bet a reasonable amount of > money that a while statement could be added to Go right now and not > break anyone's production code. > > cheers, > Hugh Fisher > >
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