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From: kanamori@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Atsushi Kanamori)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a style question
Message-ID: <1990Sep30.172917.2951@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 30 Sep 90 17:29:17 GMT
References: <7341@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1990Sep30.050655.13212@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <1990Sep30.050655.13212@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <7341@darkstar.ucsc.edu> aryeh@cash.uucp (the over worked C something or another) writes:
>>Since I going to be doing my first team effort I want to know if this is bad 
>>style:
>>	for(x=0;x!=100;x++) ...
>
>Most people find it more readable with a bit of space and the statement
>on the next line:
>
>	for (x = 0; x != 100; x++)
>		...
>
>The cautious would also recommend `x <= 100', but in this situation that
>is arguable.


I would say "x <= 100" is arguably bad.

"x < 100" is more like it.


More usefully, "<" seems to be a more common idiom than "!=" in upward counting
loops. So using "<" will probably shave a few microseconds off 
the human reader's processing time.