May 15, 2003

loop through

vt.

To process each element of a list of things. Hold on, I've got to loop through my paper mail. Derives from the computer-language notion of an iterative loop; compare cdr down (under cdr), which is less common among C and Unix programmers. ITS hackers used to say IRP over after an obscure pseudo-op in the MIDAS PDP-10 assembler (the same IRP op can nowadays be found in Microsoft's assembler).

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:40 AM

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