Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Always use braces (was: Suggested new C loop syntax)
Message-ID: <2563@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 25 Dec 88 00:47:54 GMT
References: <5@rsoft.UUCP> <1071@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <861@quintus.UUCP> <11037@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <11037@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>, cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav]) writes:
> 	/*
> 	 * assume students have not learned the ',' operator yet
> 	 */
> 	do	{
> 		inchar = getchar();
> 		} while(inchar != EOF && inchar);
> 	return inchar;

I would recommend in this instance to make the test experession:

	inchar != EOF && inchar != '\0'

Since inchar is obviously not a boolean (it has three distinct possible
values: EOF, 0, and anything else).
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