Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!wald-david
From: wald-david@CS.YALE.EDU (david wald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: down
Message-ID: <45476@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 21:33:29 GMT
References: <gables.352@umigw.miami.edu> <843@quintus.UUCP>
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In article <843@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>
>       for (chcnt = 0; (c = getchar()) != EOF; chcnt += c == '\n' ? 2 : 1)
>           ;

Urgh.  Yes, it's not *too* unreadable, yes it's correct, but if you're
going to do it like that, why bother eliminating the while loop:

while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
    chcnt += (c == '\n' ? 2 : 1);


And, precedence rules be damned, I'd put in the parentheses.

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