On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 15:46, Miko O'Sullivan wrote: > > Well, if there's no while (replaced by generic "loop", per Apoc4) why > > would there be an until? > > Whoa. I actually had a moment of panic there. Then I checked for myself. > I don't see anything in Apoc4 about getting rid of while. It may be > excluded from evolution, but it's still there, sorta like the alligator. > Larry uses while in several examples.
Ok, going back and looking, I was mislead by a bad memory. I had asked if for(;;) was still in, and Larry pointed out that it was, but it was now loop;; > > So, the answer to your question is: yes, I do propose that there should > > be an elsif, elsloop and elsfor. That's it. Three words, not an > > expansive list of ever-more-complex words. > > Why not also elswhile? According to Apoc4, while still gets the cool loop > controls like NEXT, why shouldn't it get to join the els party? Even > alligators evolve a little. If there's a while, there should be an elswhile. My bad on the mix-up.
