Issue - 45 - Wording of "while" activity

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Issue - 45 - Wording of "while" activity
Status: open

Date added: 7 Aug 2003

Submitter: Danny van der Rijn

Date submitted: 06 August 2003

Document: Specification

Description: In section 12.3, the "while" activity is described as follows:

"The while activity supports repeated performance of a specified iterative activity. The iterative activity is performed until the given Boolean while condition no longer holds true."

The use of the word "until" in the description can cause the reader to conflate the semantics of the 
"while" activity with a (currently) non-existent "repeat-until" activity that evaluates the condition 
after the loop has executed, and therefore always executes at least once.

Submitter's proposal: Change the wording to read:

"The while activity supports repeated performance of a specified iterative activity. The iterative 
activity is performed as long as the given Boolean while condition holds true."

Changes: 7 Aug 2003 - new issue

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