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<news@chaos.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
|> I like to code loops in the following way:
|> 
|>     for (;;)
|>     {
|>          if (condition)
|>          {
|>               // do something

Of course you would actually use /* */ style comments in actual C
code which is intended to be ANSI C complaint?

|>          }
|>          else break;
|>     }
|> 
|> Works fine for me: the loop has one exit point and there are no 
|> superfluous "OK"-variables to track.
|> 
|> For instance, when you scan a textfile:
|> 
|>     for (;;)
|>     {
|>         fgets (,, f);
|>         if (! feof (f))
|>         {
|>              ...
|>         }

Why not:

if (fgets (,, f) == NULL)
{
...
}

Then you don't need to use the feof() function at all.

|>         else break;
|>     }
-- 
"If it wasn't for C, we would be using BASI, PASAL, and OBOL."

Jonas J. Schlein  (schlein@gl.umbc.edu)