Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Some interesting novice questions from a novice guy Message-ID: <2422@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 28 Oct 90 02:14:35 GMT References: <2620@cirrusl.UUCP> Sender: news@cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 22 In article stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes: > dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes: ... > > But the C meaning of "continue" (not to be confused with the > > Fortran meaning of "CONTINUE") is more like: "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!" > Your problems are 1) a fatal overdose of anthropomorphism and 2) a > personally concocted definition of "continue" that does not match the > real world. Calm down please. Rahul Dhesis idea is not that wrong. > The correct definition of "continue", in the C language > context, is "go to the top of the smallest enclosing while, do, or for." This is wrong, it is not go to the top, but go to the bottom! Consider the difference in a 'do {...} while'. Go to the top will never see the test. To correct Rahuls words: "Hey you! I have seen this, now please get the next one, if any!" -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland dik@cwi.nl