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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Some interesting novice questions from a novice guy
Message-ID: <14364@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 7 Nov 90 08:56:46 GMT
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In article <L3O6IN7@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I saw this discussion. Doesn't make sense. Doesn't anyone use:
>	while(*foo++)
>		continue;
>anymore?

Nope.  I use
	while ( *foo++ != '\0' )	/* or != NULL, depending */
		;
I figure that if anybody doesn't immediately understand this they shouldn't
be messing with it in the first place.