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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })
Date: Sun, 04 May 2025 21:35:16 -0700
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>
>> On 18/04/2025 19:10, James Kuyper wrote:
>>
>>> On 16.04.2025 13:01, bart wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> Unlike C's for, which is just a gimmick where you bundle three
>>>> potentially unrelated expressions and hope for the best.
>>>
>>> If all you can do is "hope for the best", you're doing it wrong.
>>> It's your job to ensure that they are not arbitrary unrelated
>>> expressions, but correctly related expressions, and that's no
>>> different from your responsibility for all of the other
>>> expressions that make up your program.
>>
>> If you find that problematic, you shouldn't be programming in
>>
>>> any language, but certainly not in C.
>>
>> I see it didn't take you long to get to the personal insult.  What
>> is it with this group?
>
> It's not an insult, it is a simple fact.

Any statement with the word "should" in it is a lot more likely
to be a statement of opinion than a statement of fact.