> > With PEP 315, a do-while loop would look like:
> >
> > do:
> > <body>
> > while <cond>:
> > pass
> > But then, I'm reasonably happy with the 'break out of an infinite
> > loop' approach, so *shrug*.
> From Programming Languages 101 I remember this construct in Algol 68.
> It was then claimed to be *the* universal loop construct. If that is
> true __and__ it is easy to implement, I'd say +INF for PEP 315.
I believe that Algol 68 loops looked like the following (in somewhat more
Python-like terms):
[for <identifier> [from <suite>] [step <suite>] to <suite>]
[while <suite>]
do <suite> od
where either "for" or "while" had to be present. Note that in Algol 68, the
value of a "suite" (which I think they called a "serial clause") is the
value of the last expression in it.
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