[imp-hackers] LOOP non-compliance

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Stas Boukarev <stassats at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wish the opposite was true (standard or not), that all implementations
> accepted (loop while ... for ..), it's such a pain to write LOOPs without
> this
> construct.
>

Having WHILE out of order is not just a syntactic matter, but it implies a
change of the semantic in LOOP. Such a change cannot be left to the taste
of a single implementation.

Juanjo

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