Steve Lamb grey at despair.rpglink.com
Sat Dec 30 00:37:19 EST 2000

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On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 05:23:26 GMT, Rainer Deyke <root at rainerdeyke.com> wrote:
>At that point it's better to use 'while 1', which is at least idiomatic and
>explicit in its inelegance.

    I'm sorry, but I don't agree.  Even though I have no problem with while 1:
initing variables before the loop is more preferable to a break.  Esp. when
one can put the condition in the while; unlike reading lines from a file where
one cannot.

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