Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!datapg!com50!jhereg!mark
From: mark@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question of style
Message-ID: <436@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG>
Date: 2 Dec 89 14:30:58 GMT
References: <547@mars.Morgan.COM> <1989Nov30.001947.14883@aqdata.uucp> <427@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: mark@jhereg.minnetech.mn.org (Mark H. Colburn)
Organization: Open Systems Architects, Inc., Mpls, MN
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In article <427@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG> I write:
>The code above could be written as 
>
>	while (c = getchar && c  != EOF) { 
>	    ... 
>	}

Hmmm.  Hopefully I can point out my own error before someone else does.

This will work on most interactive terminals under Unix since most tty 
drivers assume that a NUL is a pad  character but it looses on anything 
that will recognize a NUL ('\0') character as a valid character on the
input stream.  In those cases, the ',' would be the only choice if you did
not want to split the statement into to parts.



-- 
Mark H. Colburn                       mark@Minnetech.MN.ORG
Open Systems Architects, Inc.