On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:37:56AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 16 September 2012 10:28, Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > I thought preferred and more style(9) compliant way to code [empty >> > endless loop] is: >> > >> > for (;;) >> > continue; >> >> Actually: >> >> for (;;) >> ; > > Explicit "continue" is supposed to tell reviewer that original author did > not make a typo, but indeed knew what he was doing. Lonely semicolon is too > ambiguous in this case.
The semicolon being on its own line is not ambiguous, and is good style everywhere. A semicolon on the same line as a while or for is a red flag that it may be unintentional. Cheers, matthew _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
