Re: Scripting language takes a silicon turn

[Lisa Parratt <lisa@...>]

Mark Edgar wrote:
> loop
>   line = io.read()
> while line
>   io.write(line)
> repeat

Is that similar to Ada's:

loop
	exit when /condition/;
end loop;

? It always struck me as an exceedingly beautiful way of making all the 
different sorts of loop disappear up themselves.

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