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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: _continue_ as NOP
Message-ID: <1755@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 91 14:51:10 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.181921.21478@inferno.peri.com>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <1991Feb22.181921.21478@inferno.peri.com> shane@inferno.peri.com (Shane Bouslough) writes:
>I have seen _continue_ used to make the NOP semi-colon a
>little less invisible:
>
>	while ( actual work happens in here )
>		continue;

Hmmmmm.  I like it.  Personally I usually use empty braces:

        while ( somethingoranother )
            {}

They tend to stand out more and look less like a mistake than a ';'.

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