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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>loop through</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="logical.html" title="logical"/><link rel="next" href="loose-bytes.html" title="loose bytes"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">loop through</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="logical.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="loose-bytes.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="loop-through"/><dt xmlns="" id="loop-through"><b>loop through</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To process each element of a list of things. “<span class="quote">Hold on, I've
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got to loop through my paper mail.</span>” Derives from the
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computer-language notion of an iterative loop; compare <span class="firstterm">cdr down</span> (under <a href="../C/cdr.html"><i class="glossterm">cdr</i></a>),
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which is less common among C and Unix programmers. ITS hackers used to say
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<span class="firstterm">IRP over</span> after an obscure pseudo-op
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in the MIDAS PDP-10 assembler (the same IRP op can nowadays be found in
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Microsoft's assembler).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="logical.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="loose-bytes.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">logical </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> loose bytes</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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