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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:12:15 +0100
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On 14/04/2025 11:51, tTh wrote:
> On 4/14/25 12:16, bart wrote:
>>      do 100 i = a, b
>>          s1
>>          s2
>>          ...
>> 100 continue
> 
>       do i = a, b
>          s1
>          s2
>       end do
> 

That's even better.

However my earlier point was that Fortran (ie. FORTRAN) had a simple 
iterative loop even in the 1950s. Then you had to use those numeric labels.