How not to write a loop

[Rahul Dhesi]

In article <1988Feb11.200149.25172 at sq.uucp> msb at sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>	Floating point numbers should never be used for counting.

Never say never.  (Well, hardly ever say never.)  At least one
widely-used implementation of Snobol4 successfully uses a floating
point register to count the number of statements executed, relying on
floating point overflow being detected by hardware so that the program
may be aborted when the user-specified statement count limit is
reached.
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