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From: john@IASTATE.EDU (Hascall John Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a style question
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Date: 1 Oct 90 00:44:48 GMT
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In article <8660@ncar.ucar.edu>, steve@groucho.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson)
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++) ...
> 
> It's OK, though some improvements could be made.  ...
> 
> 	for (x = 0; x < NUM_ELEMENTS; x++) ...

    This is really pointless, but I don't see that stopping anyone else...
    What is the generally preferred usage?  Or does it matter at all?

        ++x;   or   x++;

    I find myself using ++x (which in my mind I attribute to some long gone,
  brain-damaged optimizer from my past -- but I still persist).  My `favorite'
  is:

        --x;   and   x++;         (pre-decrement, post-increment!!!)
 
> Note also the use of additional whitespace.

    Please!

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John Hascall                        An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.
Project Vincent
Iowa State University Computation Center                       john@iastate.edu
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