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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How not to write a loop
Message-ID: <7384@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 29 Feb 88 18:00:53 GMT
References: <560@naucse.UUCP> <1988Feb11.200149.25172@sq.uucp> <2115@bsu-cs.UUCP> <296@draken.nada.kth.se> <832@unmvax.unm.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: For Loops Silliness Why

In article <832@unmvax.unm.edu> mike@turing.UNM.EDU.UUCP (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
>	float x;
>	for (x = 0; x < 20; x += .5)
>		printf("%f\n", x);
>The output would, of course, be
>	0.0
	...
>	19.5

and, perhaps,
	20.0
(ignoring the nit that this isn't quite the format specified).

That is why the original poster didn't want to see such loop control
in putative portable programs.