Faun Faun The faun (, , "phaunos", ) is a mythological half human–half goat creature appearing in Ancient Rome. The goat man, more commonly affiliated with the Satyrs of Greek mythology or Fauns of Roman, is a bipedal creature with the legs and tail of a goat and the head, arms and torso of a man and is often depicted with goat's horns and pointed ears. These creatures in turn borrowed their appearance from the god Pan of the Greek pantheon. They were a symbol of fertility, and their chieftain was Silenus, a minor deity of Greek mythology. Romans believed fauns
Loop-and-a-half Loop-and-a-half Loop-and-a-half is a computer science term for a control flow construct where a loop is exited in the middle, instead of at the beginning or at the end. This kind of logic is needed for example when processing an unknown number of data items until a certain condition becomes true indicating that there are no more items to process. Usually the exit condition has to do with the data items, for example looking for a particular item called the sentinel which indicates the end of the items. Writing a loop-and-a-half in a simplistic manner leads to code duplication which