Quoting Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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
Ooops, a few errors:
void main(void) makes better sense, because you're not returning anything;
the for loop merely walks you through the array and if my rethinking is correct,
it would in fact go beyond the array boundaries, so it probably should be
int b[LARGE];
and if you wanted to store anything in the b[LARGE] array, you'd use b[i] = i++
instead.
My bad.
But on the other hand, Lions' Book's full of this sort of construction. It's
how they managed the file system, for one thing. ;)
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!
> >
> >
>
>
>
> "Sharpened hands are happy hands.
> "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands"
> - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
>
> "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!"
> I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of
> the
> other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
>
"Sharpened hands are happy hands.
"Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands"
- A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
"I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!"
I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the
other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
