So if you wanna do something conditionally, you generally needs to ask the question, is the following true or false.

假如想在一定条件下做一件事情，你需要判断下这个条件，来看看条件是真还是假。

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So hopefully, there's an opportunity for actually looping and, ultimately, than doing things conditionally.

所以我就希望，最终有这样一个循环,而不是我重复做这件工作。

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