On 9/3/07, Vimal
Hi In my Paradigms of Programming course, my professor presents this piece of code:
while E do S if F then break end T end
He then asked us to *prove* that the above programming fragment cannot be implemented just using if and while statement, even if S and T can be duplicated a finite number of times
But it IS possible. Just add a boolean flag: done = False while E and not(done) do... I'll let you work out the rest. Unless I am missing something here... are you not allowed to introduce extra variables? It's a strange thing for your professor to ask, since under reasonable assumptions, anything that is computable can be done only using if and while. goto (which is essentially what break is) is never necessary. -Brent