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From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: style wars
Keywords: style
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Date: 18 Dec 88 09:07:54 GMT
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Since this flamefest has come up again, I thought I would contribute
something I consider more readable than the "standard" representation.
Null statements are sometimes useful in C, mainly as loop bodies.

Some people use semicolon on a line by itself for the null statment.
I prefer a pair of braces:

		for(p = FIRST; p->next != NULL; p = p->next)
		    ;

looks strange to me, and takes two vertical lines.

		for(p = FIRST; p->next != NULL; p = p->next) {}

uses a special two character sequence to denote the null statement,
and takes only a single line.

(Vertical space is limited on the terminals I use to read and edit
programs, when comparing programs or looking at an insert file, only
11 lines of the function are visable.)
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