Re: infinite loop

["Tony Carolla" <carolla@xxxxxxxxx>]

With structured programming, infinite loops are unnecessary.  ;-)

We all know this is bs, and there are times when they are appropriate.  In
my experience though, when I am doing an 'infinite' loop (notice the quotes
-- the sun won't be operational long enough technically), it is usually
because I am approaching the procedure in an unstructured way.  But there
are times when a loop has multiple possible exit-points, and rather than
code a gamut of nested if- or select- structures, it is simpler to code
LEAVE operations.

The funny thing about this is that GOTO accomplishes the same thing, and in
essence the DOW 1=1; operation is acting just like a GOTO, the use of GOTO
is just so frowned upon.

My 0.02 unloaded.

On 9/14/06, Lim Hock-Chai <Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In fix format, I use to do below for infinite loop
> C                do        *hival
>
>
> is there a way to do this similar syntax in free format with declare a
> variable?
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