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From: X77 on 9 Apr 2008 14:12 Have a Good Morning to all of you. If someone of you, is so nice, here I have a little problem. One professor says that in the loop of kind do Statements while(condition) the loop is taken (there is the jump to "do") if condition is false. I say that there the loop is taken if the condition is true. Who is right? there is an Ipse dixit in informatic? or i can say too what i think Thank you
From: X77 on 9 Apr 2008 14:17 "X77" <a(a)b.c> ha scritto nel messaggio news:47fd06d2$0$29598$4fafbaef(a)reader1.news.tin.it... > Have a Good Morning to all of you. > > If someone of you, is so nice, > here I have a little problem. > > One professor says that in the loop of kind > do > Statements > while(condition) > the loop is taken (there is the jump to "do") > if condition is false. > > I say that there the loop is taken > if the condition is true. > > Who is right? > there is an Ipse dixit in informatic? or i can say too what i think then the same prof says that i can not use the world "Algoritm" for explain process in the real world e.g: take the bus, arrive at home, oper the door, turn on the pc, connect to internet. > Thank you > > >
From: Rod Pemberton on 9 Apr 2008 15:54 "X77" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message news:47fd06d2$0$29598$4fafbaef(a)reader1.news.tin.it... > One professor says that in the loop of kind > do > Statements > while(condition) > the loop is taken (there is the jump to "do") > if condition is false. > > I say that there the loop is taken > if the condition is true. > > Who is right? > there is an Ipse dixit in informatic? or i can say too what i think > > do > Statements > while(condition) Most languages use "true" as the test state of "condition" in conditionals. "true" is defined as being "not false". "false" is defined as zero. That means that "true" is any non-zero value. (The ADA programming language may be an exception). (I can't guarantee this is always the truth, but it's held up for almost three decades and over a dozen languages...) I.e., For a number of high level languages, I'd read the above loop as: do Statements while(condition is "true") However, I usually expand "true" to this: do Statements while(condition is not zero) The loop is entered automatically by the code above. The loop exits when condition is zero ("false"). The loop code repeats when condition is not zero ("true"). It's possible your prof's expected placement of jumps to implement the loop could allow a false condition to execute the loop... or perhaps he's teaching ADA. HTH, Rod Pemberton
From: X77 on 9 Apr 2008 16:34 "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have(a)nohavenot.cmm> ha scritto nel messaggio news:ftj6qs$6g4$1(a)aioe.org... > "X77" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message > news:47fd06d2$0$29598$4fafbaef(a)reader1.news.tin.it... >> One professor says that in the loop of kind >> do >> Statements >> while(condition) >> the loop is taken (there is the jump to "do") >> if condition is false. >> >> I say that there the loop is taken >> if the condition is true. >> >> Who is right? >> there is an Ipse dixit in informatic? or i can say too what i think > It's possible your prof's expected placement of jumps to implement the > loop > could allow a false condition to execute the loop... or perhaps he's > teaching ADA. it will be good; i like all the programming language; no the professor don't teaching ADA nor C nor Pascal it seems only a formal wrong language > HTH, > > > Rod Pemberton
From: X77 on 9 Apr 2008 18:08
"X77" <a(a)b.c> ha scritto nel messaggio news:47fd2832$0$40216$4fafbaef(a)reader5.news.tin.it... > > "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have(a)nohavenot.cmm> ha scritto nel messaggio > news:ftj6qs$6g4$1(a)aioe.org... >> "X77" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message >> news:47fd06d2$0$29598$4fafbaef(a)reader1.news.tin.it... >>> One professor says that in the loop of kind >>> do >>> Statements >>> while(condition) >>> the loop is taken (there is the jump to "do") >>> if condition is false. >>> >>> I say that there the loop is taken >>> if the condition is true. >>> >>> Who is right? >>> there is an Ipse dixit in informatic? or i can say too what i think > >> It's possible your prof's expected placement of jumps to implement the >> loop >> could allow a false condition to execute the loop... or perhaps he's >> teaching ADA. > > it will be good; i like all the programming language; > no the professor don't teaching ADA > nor C nor Pascal it seems only a formal wrong language if you have to assign a vote for my english or for how i write from 1 to 10; it will be ... >> HTH, >> >> >> Rod Pemberton > |