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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Statement terminators
Message-ID: <FLEE.89May10220710@shire.cs.psu.edu>
Date: 11 May 89 02:07:10 GMT
References: <2296@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>, <13292@lanl.gov> <873@kaiser.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: npl@kaiser.UUCP's message of 10 May 89 17:01:49 GMT

In article <873@kaiser.UUCP>,
   npl@kaiser.UUCP (N Landsberg) writes:
>	for(p=begin;p->p_next;p=p->p_next) /* DO NOTHING */ ;
>	{ [...] }
>Without the trailing ';' it is unclear whether the block is to be
>executed as part of the loop.

Most languages without explicit statement terminators have a "skip"
statement and disallow null statements.
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