languages, a while loop is a control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly based on a given Boolean condition. The while loop can be thought...
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languages, a do while loop is a control flow statement that executes a block of code and then either repeats the block or exits the loop depending on a...
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or 2, while fish will alternate being 2 or 1. The loop will not stop unless an external intervention occurs ("pull the plug"). An infinite loop is a sequence...
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basic structure and/or concept. The While loop and the For loop are the two most common types of conditional loops in most programming languages. The following...
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Control flow (redirect from Program loop)
better. In Ada, the above loop construct (loop-while-repeat) can be represented using a standard infinite loop (loop - end loop) that has an exit when clause...
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known before entering the loop. For-loops can be thought of as shorthands for while-loops which increment and test a loop variable. Various keywords...
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explains how a program counter operates in terms of a while loop. Harel notes that the single loop used by the folk version of the structured programming...
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is a way of manually implementing loop unrolling by interleaving two syntactic constructs of C: the do-while loop and a switch statement. Its discovery...
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science, loop inversion is a compiler optimization and loop transformation in which a while loop is replaced by an if block containing a do..while loop. When...
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shown that performance of a while loop with an inner for loop is better than of a while loop without the inner for loop. It was observed that more computations...
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PHP syntax and semantics (section While loop)
a for loop is as follows: for (initialization; condition; afterthought) { // statements; } The syntax for a PHP while loop is as follows: while (condition)...
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Loop unrolling, also known as loop unwinding, is a loop transformation technique that attempts to optimize a program's execution speed at the expense...
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Java syntax (section while loop)
spaces: int ch; while (ch == getChar()) { if (ch == ' ') { continue; // Skips the rest of the while-loop } // Rest of the while-loop, will not be reached...
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In computer science, a loop invariant is a property of a program loop that is true before (and after) each iteration. It is a logical assertion, sometimes...
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well-founded relation by the iteration of a while loop under some invariant conditions, thereby ensuring its termination. A loop variant whose range is restricted...
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JavaScript syntax (section While loop)
..} may cause for ... in loops to loop over the method's name. The syntax of the JavaScript while loop is as follows: while (condition) { statement1;...
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outer while loop is entered. op is + (precedence 1) and the input is advanced rhs is 3 the lookahead token is *, with precedence 2. the inner while loop is...
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foreach loop (or for-each loop) is a control flow statement for traversing items in a collection. foreach is usually used in place of a standard for loop statement...
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they are given priority again (the inner while loop). Processes with priority will break from the while loop and enter their critical section. Dekker's...
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Predicate transformer semantics (section While loop)
the definitions of weakest-precondition given above (in particular for while-loop) preserve this property. Selection is a generalization of if statement:...
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Off-by-one error (section Looping over arrays)
Another such error can occur if a do-while loop is used in place of a while loop (or vice versa.) A do-while loop is guaranteed to run at least once. Array-related...
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BREAK ends the enclosing WHILE loop, while CONTINUE causes the next iteration of the loop to execute. An example of a WHILE loop is given below. DECLARE...
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replacing the while loop with a do {} while. If the code used do {} while in the first place, the whole guarding process is not needed, as the loop body is...
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Control-flow graph (section Loop management)
blocks in the loop body. A block may be a loop header for more than one loop. A loop may have multiple entry points, in which case it has no "loop header"....
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returns to the beginning of the loop and the cycle of check and conditional execution begins again. By contrast, a do while loop first executes the action,...
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if output(A) // Swap has occurred ending the while-loop. Simulate the increment of the while-loop counter c[i] += 1 // Simulate recursive call reaching...
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Rust (programming language) (section while loops)
can be used to break an outer loop rather than the innermost loop. fn main() { let value = 456; let mut x = 1; let y = loop { x *= 10; if x > value { break...
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is used in conjunction with while to create a do-while loop, which executes a block of statements associated with the loop and then tests a boolean expression...
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(born 1956), British singer-songwriter Kellie While (born 1976), British singer-songwriter While loop in computer programming Wile (disambiguation) This...
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that allow it to loop through multiple rows in a table. Stored-procedure flow-control statements typically include IF, WHILE, LOOP, REPEAT, and CASE...
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