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From: cary@methods.UUCP (Cary Timar )
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Subject: Re: e1?(void_e2):(void_e3)     so, is it legal or what?
Message-ID: <114@methods.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Aug-86 20:26:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: methods.114
Posted: Mon Aug 25 20:26:05 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Aug-86 04:11:41 EDT
References: <518@hadron.UUCP> <243@desint.UUCP> <745@wjvax.wjvax.UUCP> <248@desint.UUCP>
Reply-To: cary@methods.UUCP (Cary Timar (U of W co-op))
Organization: Methodsworks, Inc., Burlington, Ont.
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Xref: watmath net.lang.c:10340 net.bugs:887
Summary: 

In article <248@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>
>Unfortunately, Brett is incorrect here.  You can't use if/then/else to write:
>
>	for (i = up ? 0 : 99;  up ? (i < 100) : (i >= 0);  up ? i++ : i--)
>	    {
>	    /* complex loop body */
>	    }
>
>without duplicating code.  On the other hand, anywhere you want do

What about:

	if (up)
		{
		i = 0;
		step = 1;
		}
	else
		{
		i = 99;
		step = -1;
		}
	for (; i < 100 && i >= 0; i += step)
		{
		/* complex loop body */
		}
	
????

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