Re: [Caml-list] C style for loop

[Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org>]

At 2:47 PM +0200 11/10/01, Berke Durak wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 01:47:07AM -0400, Jeff Henrikson wrote:
>
>>  Okay, so maybe I should be more specific about what I want in a
>>  "C-style for loop."  Its readablity merits are hopefully self
>>  evident.  Well, unless you're a compulsive CPS addict who wishes
>>  even his grocery list could be written to tail recurse. . .
>
>[...]
>
>Do you really pretend that ``C-style for loops'' have ``self-evident
>readability merits'' ?! My opinion is that ```C-style'' loop syntax
>IS unreadable, ununderstandable and unprovable. How many people using
>C know the _exact_ semantics of :
>
>	for(exp1;expr2;expr3){expr4}

Sure, it's easy:

   {
      exp1;
      while (expr2){
          expr4;
          expr3;
      }
   }

It's damn ugly, though, and with much unnecessary repetition of the 
control variable in simple cases.


>I never manage to remember if expr3 is evaluated if expr2 is always
>zero.

No.  See above.



>  However with
>
>	for i = 0 to 33 do
>		f i
>	done
>
>the ONLY little point about which you MIGHT hesitate is : does f 33
>get called or does the loop stop at 32 ?

Dylan makes has explicit versions:

   for (i from 0 to 33)
   end

   for (i from 0 below 33)
   end

-- Bruce
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