Bodyless loop (was: Comparing strings...)

[Dave Gillespie]

>>>>> On 19 Oct 90 15:50:17 GMT, henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) said:

> In article <18573 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>>By the way, tacking the ";" on the end of the while is a great way to
>>trip up your readers...
>
> Actually, no, my preferred alternative is

> 	while (...)
> 		continue;

My favorite way is to write

	while (...) ;

wish a space before the trailing semicolon.  It's concise, and
unambigious (to me at least) because I never put a space before
the semicolon for any other reason.  (Nor do most C programmers
I've seen.)

								-- Dave
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