Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!htsa!fransvo
From: fransvo@htsa.uucp (Frans van Otten)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Always use braces
Message-ID: <683@htsa.uucp>
Date: 3 Jan 89 08:27:20 GMT
References: <5@rsoft.UUCP> <1071@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <861@quintus.UUCP> <271@twwells.uucp> <11037@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <9235@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten)
Organization: AHA-TMF (Technical Institute), Amsterdam Netherlands
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In article <9235@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa writes:
>	#include	<stdio.h>
>	#define	MAGIC	'\0'	/* silly terminating character value */
>	int			/* returns EOF or MAGIC (why??) */
>	some_function( void )	/* ANSI C assumed; else delete "void" */
>		{
>		int	c;	/* character from standard input */
>		while ( (c = getchar()) != EOF )
>			if ( c == MAGIC )
>				return MAGIC;
>		return EOF;
>		}

How do you like it my way:

#include <stdio.h>

int f()
  { int ch;
    while ((ch = getchar()) != EOF  &&  c)    /*  find EOF or '\0'  */
    return (ch);
  }

Any C programmer will understand how this function works; it takes less
space, because it is shorter, etc. So: Why is my solution too simple ?

-- 
                         Frans van Otten
                         Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam
			 Technische en Maritieme Faculteit
                         fransvo@htsa.uucp