bad code

I once had a programming student do this sort of thing:

done = False
step = 1
while not done:
  if step == 1:
    # ... do something ...
    step = 2
  elif step == 2:
    # ... do something else ...
    step = 3
  # ... and so on ...

Effectively he'd reinvented state machines!

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    {
        break;
    }
} while (true);

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