Quoting Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, 16 May 2006 18:55:16 +1200
> Rex Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Dale DuRose wrote:
<snip>
> The other appalling shortcut at this point is missing out the braces and
> just using the next line as the 'do something' bit. Great until you need
> to do more than one thing, and forget.
And then there are the people who insist on making the <iteration action> the
<do something> and having empty curly brackets following the end ')' . makes
for interesting reading.
Eg,
#define LARGE 50
int main(void)
{
int i;
char b[LARGE];
for (i = 0; i >= LARGE; b[i++]){}
}
As i say, hairy code. ;)
Wesley Parish
>
> Those who indent as follows...
>
> for ( initial configuration,...; End conditon; iteration action,... )
> {
> do something...
> }
>
> are adopting a method designed to save paper on a hardcopy teletype, so
> beware!
>
> My $0.02,
>
>
> Steve
> C bodger since 1984. K&R rules!
>
>
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