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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Some interesting novice questions from a novice guy
Message-ID: <1912@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 5 Nov 90 00:22:51 GMT
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In article <L3O6IN7@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
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>I saw this discussion. Doesn't make sense. Doesn't anyone use:
>
>	while(*foo++)
>		continue;
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>anymore?

No, that's just overly verbose.

	while (*p++)
		;

Is just fine.  I can see the semicolon.  That's all you need to see.

Hiding the semicolon `while (*p++);' just causes confusion.



Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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