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From: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax)
Keywords: parse, design
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.140407.28378@maths.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Aug 90 14:04:07 GMT
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|> >	while( x );/* a nasty case */
|> >		x--;
|
|prog.c: line 12: degenerate "while" loop
|
|Tom Truscott
|[Which compiler is it?  And when I really do want to write a degenerate
|while loop, how do I tell it not to complain? -John]

	while (x)
		skip;		/* Down with empty null statements! */

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Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
anw@maths.nott.ac.uk
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