9. Glossary
- counter
- A variable used to count something, usually initialized to zero and incremented in the body of a loop.
- cursor
- An invisible marker that keeps track of where the next character will be printed.
- definite iteration
- A loop where we have an upper bound on the number of times the body will be executed. Definite iteration is usually best coded as a
for loop.
- escape sequence
- An escape character,
\, followed by one or more printable characters used to designate a non-printable character.
- infinite loop
- A loop in which the terminating condition is never satisfied.
- indefinite iteration
- A loop we need to keep repeating until some condition is met. A
while statement is used for this case.
- nested loop
- A loop inside the body of another loop.
- newline
- A special character that causes the cursor to move to the beginning of
the next line.
- tab
- A special character that causes the cursor to move to the next tab stop
on the current line.