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Did labelled loops pre-date for loops?
Was the first implementation of looping control flow effectively the goto (or something like a labelled JMP in assembler) or was there another syntactic construction?
for (für) was introduced in ...
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Factored out loop control in Python
I have a for loop in python like this:
for item in items:
onwards = make_flow_decision(item)
if onwards == 'break':
break
elif onwards == 'continue':
continue
elif ...
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Recursion, iteration, and ...? [closed]
Here are three common code structures that apply a function multiple times:
foo(x) {
if basecase(x) return k else return foo(g(x))
}
uses recursion.
for i in 0..10 {
n *= bar(i)
}
uses ...
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Are there real-life usage and applications for "do while" loops? [closed]
When I see for and while loops all over production codes and mammoth projects, the last time I saw a do while loop is for a university assignment involving menu-based console input program. About 50 ...
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Why do some programming languages have break statements, but not higher-order break statements? [closed]
I may have been exposed to exactly the wrong languages, but though many have loops and break statements, none of the languages I am familiar with have higher-order break statements¹. While a regular ...
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Loops in real-life problems [closed]
I'm learning C as my first programming language. I'm confused on how do loops work in real-life. In programming every function has a reason.
example - if/else statements are used if we have ...
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