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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Some interesting novice questions from a novice guy
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Date: 27 Oct 90 20:45:16 GMT
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> >	while(*foo++)
> >		continue;

> 	while(*foo++) {
>            Hey you!  Just what the heck do you think you are
>            doing?  Stop that right now!  Go back to the
>            beginning and do it all over again, and try to do
>            it right this time!
>         }

You need to reprogram yourself. "continue" means "skip the rest of this loop".
Which makes perfect sense even if the loop's empty. It doesn't mean "go back
to the beginning", because that implies the test will not be performed again
(at least to me).

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