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Re: propose: dired-isearch.el --- isearch in Dired


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: propose: dired-isearch.el --- isearch in Dired
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:45:50 +0900

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>    =>
>
>    (let (X)
>      (while (progn (setq X EXP) C)
>        BODY)
>      TAIL)
>
> Often BODY is empty (in which case the loop would be a do...while in C).

I wish every language had some sort of nice "test-in-the-middle" loop
construct!

In C, the existing syntax seems to cry out for it, even:

    do
      {
        something;
      }
    while (test)
      {
        something else;
      }

:-]

-miles
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