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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam question
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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 14:02:44 +0200
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> Sorry to teach you to suck eggs, I'm sure I'm not telling you
> anything new :-)

the trouble is that the mess you are trying to get out of may
be extremely inelegant to test for at the end of the outer loop.

it's usually error cases that screw things up and destroy perfectly
good loops.