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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:19:50 +0200
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On 22.04.2025 00:14, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 21.04.2025 23:21, Keith Thompson wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> C-style for loops have been used successfully for decades, and have
>> been adopted by other languages (including bash, which isn't
>> particularly C-like).
> 
> I have to disagree on that. First I'm positive that Bash adopted
> the Ksh loops (but incompletely!), and not the "C" loops.
> 
> And, as opposed to Ksh (and "C"), Bash doesn't support FP valued
> loops.

Ah, I forgot; but Bash seems to support comma-subexpressions in
loops (as opposed to Ksh). - So this is even more valid (given
all the inconsistencies and differences across shells and "C"):

> (As previously said, Unix shell in general and Bash specifically
> is not a good comparison WRT "C" loops.)
> 
> Janis
>