Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!nebulus!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question of commas
Message-ID: <1989Dec8.133857.4433@druid.uucp>
Date: 8 Dec 89 13:38:57 GMT
References: <257E97F4.24962@ateng.com> <1989Dec7.192215.27671@aqdata.uucp>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <1989Dec7.192215.27671@aqdata.uucp> sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) writes:
>From article <257E97F4.24962@ateng.com>, by chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg):
>> 
>> For example, "i = i + 1" is inherently harder to read than "i++", since the
>
>But more programmers (BASIC, pascal, etc.) use "i = i + 1", and using "i++"
>assumes future programmers working with the code know C.  Obviously, the
>first choice is the correct choice :-|.

Huh!! You mean C code should be readable by people who don't know C?

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