Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!geovision!pt
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Constants in conditionals
Message-ID: <1426@geovision.gvc.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 15:26:24 GMT
References: <9890@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1991Feb18.113919.28217@watmath.waterloo.edu> <10032@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1991Feb20.034136.14554@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: GeoVision Corp., Ottawa, Ontario
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scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
>(I still get bit by this from time to time, whether from sticky
>keyboards or sticky fingers I'm not sure.)  However,
>constructions like

>   while(TRUE)

>are so common that it seems better not to warn about them.

Simple solution:

Replace:

    while (TRUE)
    {
        ...
    }

with:

considered_harmful:
    ...
    goto considered_harmful;

:-) :-)
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