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From: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question of style
Message-ID: <385@quad.uucp>
Date: 9 Dec 89 19:59:17 GMT
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Reply-To: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
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In article <1437@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
:
:[On the subject of  while (c=getchar(), c!=EOF)]
:
:I would have thought that it's common enough to be regarded as a
:standard idiom itself.  At least, everyone who reads this newsgroup
:should by now be quite sufficiently familiar with it!

Sure.  And we've also become familiar with the effects of interweaving
loops and case labels, but that doesn't make it a good idea.

In any event, I've yet to see  while (c=getchar(), c!=EOF)  used in
any real world code.  Just lucky, I guess.  ;')

-- 
David Sandberg             dts@quad.uucp or ..uunet!rosevax!sialis!quad!dts
"What's the difference??"