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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: null statements
Message-ID: <442@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 11:08:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: sunybcs.442
Posted: Fri Jul 18 11:08:14 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jul-86 06:41:39 EDT
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> So to get the effect equivalent to "zero" out of the null statement, do we
> invent some sort of "positional notation" for statements?!?!

Fine with me!  I'd rather be able to write

	while ('\n' != getchar()) nothing;

than

	while ('\n' != getchar()) /* do nothing */ ;
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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