Comment by TrianguloY
3 months ago
Think of a producer (a method that returns data each time you request one, like reading a file line by line or extracting the top of a queue for example) that you need to parse and process until you find a special element that means "stop".
Something like
do{
raw_data=produce.get()
data=parse(raw_data)
}while(data!=STOP){
process(data)
}
I'm aware this example can be trivially replaced with a while(data=parse(producer.get())){process(data)} but you are forced to have a method, and if you need both the raw and parsed data at the same time, either you mix them into a wrapper or you need to somehow transfer two variables at the same time from the parse>condition>process
A do-while here also has the same issue, but in this case after you check the condition you can't do any processing afterwards (unless you move the check and process into a single check_and_process method...which you can totally do but again the idea is to not require it)
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