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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: LOOP
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:01:48 GMT
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sean@conman.org writes:
>  What is the difference between FOR/NEXT and DO/LOOP?  Don't they do the
>same thing?

FOR ... NEXT on one system does not do the same thing as FOR ... NEXT
on some other systems, and they all behave different from DO ... LOOP.

- anton
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