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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:18:40 +0300
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:47:56 -0400
James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> >On 16/04/2025 06:35, Janis Papanagnou wrote:  
> 
> >
> >So here, 0% of such loops have a step other than 1. THAT's what I
> >mean by 'unusual'.  
> 
> The files easily accessible to me contain 13965 for statements, of
> which 596 used a step other than 1.
>

In quoted statement "1" was meant to cover both +1 and -1.
I would be surprised to find out that non-units strides are relatively
common (say, above 0.1%) outside of several specialized fields, like
linear algebra and image processing.

There are yet other fields where we can encounter increments that are
non-constant throughout duration of the loop. Bart would probably say
that such loops do not count, in both senses. I.e. they are not
counting loops, but forms of while loop.