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Consider this situation: You are running through a table with a hundred</snip>
thousand entries, and it is neither indexed nor sorted. Completely
random. By the strict "single entry, single exit" rule, you HAVE to look
at all of the entries, every time, whether the one you're looking for is
the first one or the last one...
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