Conditional statements and loops are really quite an important aspect of many programming languages; without them, blocks of code would have to be copied and pasted many times over, and programs ...

When thinking about loops in programming languages, they often get simplified down to a conditions section and a body, but this belies the dizzying complexity that emerges when considering loop edg… ...

Vincent Hindriksen from Stream Computing writes that the more you think about it, the more you’ll find that a loop is not a loop. In “Separation of compute, control and transfer” I talked about ...