When I get married....

[Lugubrious]

Oh my, I should've known the coder community would be all over the syntax.

[Charles Stover]

It's not code if it's not proper syntax! And if it's not code, it's not funny.

[Troxy]

I don't see why have and hold, as well as love and cherish have to be separate. >> I like the idea of coupling them together, so that it's easier to understand. Rofl, that's just me trying to make code look nice, as well as function properly. Silly me, it'll never take me anywhere.

[Charles Stover]

'Cause there should be better use of "and."

[Michael]

In theory, you have to define the functions & variables if we're being picky!

[frufru]

Jun 9, 2010 3:29:21 GMT -8 Michael said:

In theory, you have to define the functions & variables if we're being picky!

#include <Life.h>

...also, do any of the major languages that use this syntax actually support do-until loops? I only found do-while or just while when searching for them

[Bob]

Jun 9, 2010 5:46:25 GMT -8 frufru said:

Jun 9, 2010 3:29:21 GMT -8 Michael said:

In theory, you have to define the functions & variables if we're being picky!

#include <Life.h>

...also, do any of the major languages that use this syntax actually support do-until loops? I only found do-while or just while when searching for them

Yes, Perl does. C/C++ are also capable of supporting this via a preprocessor definition.

[Charles Stover]

I think he's talking about the use of until not the use of do.

[frufru]

Jun 9, 2010 14:25:27 GMT -8 Charles Stover said:

I think he's talking about the use of until not the use of do.

I think Bobby is right about those languages that use do-until. Do loops (with while) exist in just about every language, but as for until those were the only ones I came across after some further searching. Though in Perl you'd probably be wanting until ($death==true)

[Bob]

Jun 9, 2010 14:25:27 GMT -8 Charles Stover said:

I think he's talking about the use of until not the use of do.

As was I.


Perl

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $i = 1;

do
{
  print "$i\n";
  $i++;
} until ($i > 10);

C

#include <stdio.h>
#define until(expr) while((expr) == 0)

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  unsigned short int i = 1;
  
  do
  {
    printf ("%d\n", i);
    i++;
  } until (i > 10);
  
  return 0;
}

C++

#include <iostream>
#define until(expr) while((expr) != true)

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  unsigned short int i = 1;
  
  do
  {
    std::cout << i << std::endl;
    i++;
  } until (i > 10);

  return 0;
}