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On iterative constructs

Abstract

The wheel is repeatedly reinvented because it is a good idea. Perhaps Anson's "A Generalized Iterative Construct and Its Semantics" [1] confirms that “A Generalized Control Structure and Its Formal Definition” [2], and the earlier “An Alternative Control Structure and its Formal Definition” [3] presented good ideas. However, there are several misstatements in [1] that should be corrected. The discussion of these issues is made a bit academic …

Authors

Parnas DL

Journal

ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 139–141

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Publication Date

January 3, 1990

DOI

10.1145/77606.214517

ISSN

0164-0925