Bob ... i used my kludge which defines some bounds and tests for
it... but your
idea of stuffing that into a seperate black box as golden in that it
made me think
of the problem as input -- doit -- result.
and made my loops simpler and easier to read... and i use that same
gap making
typing
I have a loop that process each item in a sequence and after each item
some updating is done to some variables. However i don't what these
variable updated if we are processing the last item in the list. i
could put in a conditional and test if the list is now empty after
popping items from
