On 10/09/21 11:47 am, Terry Reedy wrote:
2. It is rare useful. For loops are common. While loops are occasional (nearly an order of magnitude less common than for loops. Fractional loop constructs are rare.
I would say that fractional loops are more common than loops which truly need to execute completely at least once, and aren't bugs waiting to be triggered by an edge case such as empty input. I seem to remember someone - maybe Wirth? - long ago expressing the opinion that repeat-until loops often tended to be error prone, but I can't provide a reference, sorry. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
