A question of style

[Geoffrey Rogers]

In article <1989Nov30.001947.14883 at aqdata.uucp> sullivan at aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) writes:
>From article <547 at mars.Morgan.COM>, by amull at Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt):
>while (c = getchar(), c != EOF)
>{
>	...
>}
>
>I posted this instead of mailing it to see what, if any, reaction it got.
>I'm always interested in coding style.

In this case I would write the above as:

while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
{
	...
}

IHMO this is much clearer then the above. In general the only places
I have found to use the comma operator is either in for-statements,
macros and maybe within expressions of ? : expression.

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