| while The construct found in nearly all programming languages which executes one or more instructions (the "loop body") repeatedly so long as some condition evaluates to true. In contrast to a loop, the loop body will not be executed at all if the condition is false on entry to the while. For example, in , a while loop is written while () ; where is any expression and is any statement, including a compound statement within braces "{..}". (1995-03-14) |