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From: maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Suggested new C loop syntax (was `if (a = b)')
Message-ID: <75@poppy.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Jan 89 13:24:12 GMT
References: <5@rsoft.UUCP> <1071@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <861@quintus.UUCP> <3049@arcturus> <2485@ficc.uu.net> <264@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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In article <264@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
(stuff deleted)
>
>	do
>		statement
>	while (expr);
>		statement
>
>See the difference? Well, in case you didn't, it is the semicolon at
>the end of the while expression. This is damned hard to spot and does
>not lead to a syntax error.
>
>I'll stick to using a break.
>
>---
>Bill
>{uunet|novavax}!proxftl!twwells!bill

This is exactly the same as:

for(expr; expr; expr);
	statment

which every C programmer has to be able to spot anyway - so whats the problem?




- RC

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