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From: EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Re: WANTED: "C" code line counter program
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Date: 15 Mar 91 02:19:04 GMT
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In article <9122@suns6.crosfield.co.uk>, raj@crosfield.co.uk (Ray Jones) writes:

>In all the silly examples of multiple semicolons, nobody has mentioned
>the obvious one;
>
>        for(i=0; i<end; i++)
>
>How many statements? One, surely.

COME ON, people!  Use the Backus Naur Form definition of the language, ad
printed in The C Programming Language, second edition , p. 234.  Here we
read that a statement of the type "iteration statement" is (among other
things)


     for ( optexp; optexp; optexp ) statement



which means that
>
>        for(i=0; i<end; i++)

is NOT "one, surely": it is not a well-formed statement.
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