dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (05/14/91)
In article <1991May14.121233.11823@ifi.uio.no>, janl@ifi.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt) writes: > In article <1991May13.214453.17318@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes: > .... >>input is the only form of iteration imaginable. Hence no loop >>constructs. Large parts of the design of TeX follow immediately > No loop constructs? I seem to remember that there is both \loop and > \for available. I've even used one of them once! \loop is a rather frightening tail-recursive macro which is highly fragile. Nested loops are difficult at best and extreme care must be taken when using different tail-recursive macros together as well. -dh -- Don Hosek dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu Quixote Digital Typography 714-625-0147