Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!md
From: md@sco.COM (Michael Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: style wars
Summary: use continue as null loop body
Keywords: style
Message-ID: <655@fiasco>
Date: 22 Dec 88 18:20:34 GMT
References: <14128@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: md@sco.COM (Michael Davidson)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <14128@oberon.USC.EDU> blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes:
>		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.

I much prefer to use continue as the null statement in the context
of a loop body, ie:
		for (p = FIRST; p->next != NULL; p = p->next)
			continue;