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   Anton Ertl to sean@conman.org   
   Re: LOOP   
   28 Jun 25 21:01:48   
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   sean@conman.org writes:   
   >  What is the difference between FOR/NEXT and DO/LOOP?  Don't they do the   
   >same thing?   
      
   FOR ... NEXT on one system does not do the same thing as FOR ... NEXT   
   on some other systems, and they all behave different from DO ... LOOP.   
      
   - anton   
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