Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stc!datlog!scm From: scm@dlcq15.datlog.co.uk (Steve Mawer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: A question of style Message-ID: <1989Dec11.125217.16923@dlcq15.datlog.co.uk> Date: 11 Dec 89 12:52:17 GMT References: <547@mars.Morgan.COM> <1989Nov30.001947.14883@aqdata.uucp> <427@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG> <565@s5.Morgan.COM> <1989Dec4.032918.16550@twwells.com> Reply-To: scm@dlcq15.datlog.co.uk (Steve Mawer) Organization: Data Logic Ltd, Queens House, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 1YR Lines: 13 In article <1989Dec4.032918.16550@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes: >The primary error that the comma operator leads to, when used in >the for statement, is the including of things which are not part >of the control structure itself, moving the controlled statements >into the for, and thus presenting the reader with several ideas >crammed into the one statement. You mean it's *not* a sign of a poor C programmer to put more than a single semicolon in the body of a for loop? :-) -- Steve C. Mawer or < {backbone}!ukc!datlog!scm > Voice: +44 1 863 0383 (x2153)