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From: dg@wrs.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Writing readable code
Message-ID: <207@wrs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 15:08:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: wrs.207
Posted: Wed Jul  1 15:08:40 1987
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Reply-To: dg@wrs.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Organization: Wind River Systems, Emeryville, CA
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In article <927@argus.UUCP> ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes:
>In article <10509@sri-spam.istc.sri.com>, ehrhart@aai8..istc.sri.com (Tim Ehrhart) writes:
>> >2.  Needless use of the comma operator and parenthesis to demonstrate
>> >    manhood to the obliteration of code readability, e.g.
>> >	    if((fd=open("foo",1)<0)
>> >	    [edit]
>> >        fd = open("foo", 1);
>> >	    if (fd < 0)

but what about the line I use (in one form or another) in maybe 40% of
the C programs I write:

	while ((ch = getchar()) != EOF)

(think about it!! :-))

and on the subject of readability one thing that would help above _ALL_
others is the use of white space, not just for indenting, but for
separating lexical tokens (where appropriate) in expressions: I find
the above while statement 1000 times easier to read than:

	while((ch=getchar())!=EOF)
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		dg@wrs.UUCP - David Goodenough

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