Quote: "JFTR: I was adressing the person who wrote the original mail (to come up with something with more substance)." ------------------------
I begged you pardon. What are you, a monster without feelings?! At least, be decent to accept my apology. Edward. On 03/08/2015, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 03:32:30PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> writes: >> > On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 01:14:16PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> [*] In case you want an example where this is at least debatable (and I >> >> happen to disgree with what he wrote on the topic). The simplest >> >> way >> >> to implement a block memory copy in C is >> > >> > Correction: >> > >> >> >> >> static void cpy(char *d, char const *s, size_t len) >> >> { >> >> while (len) --len, d[len] = s[len]; >> > while (len){ --len, d[len] = s[len]; | >> >> } >> >> >> > >> > It may have been simple, but not correct. >> >> A C 'while loop' is defined as >> >> while ( expression ) statement >> >> and >> >> --len, d[len] = s[len]; >> >> is a perfectly valid expression statement. > > Interesting! You are right! I misread a comma as a semicolon. > > I never thought of using commas this way. Now I get to wonder whether > this way of eliminating brackets is clarifying or misleading. It > misled me. > > But As a old user of the Lisp family of languages, I hate explicit > brackets. > > -- hendrik > >> _______________________________________________ >> Dng mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
