Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site packet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd70!packet!cfv From: cfv@packet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Our friends, }' - (nf) Message-ID: <316@packet.UUCP> Date: Sun, 31-Jul-83 00:28:04 EDT Article-I.D.: packet.316 Posted: Sun Jul 31 00:28:04 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jul-83 00:14:11 EDT References: <69@ucbcad.UUCP> Organization: PacketCable,Inc. Cupertino, CA. Lines: 26 I started out writing almost all of my code using: for (;';) { ... } for nesting, but in the last 6 months I found that I had unconsiously switched to the K&R form of: for (;;) { ... } Why I did is still a bit of a mystery to me. I think that I did it because as I became a better C programmer (writer and reader) I didn't need that explicitly visual form of nesting as badly, and it was nice to compact those lines together (white space is wonderful, but appropriate white space is best). Now that I use K&R's nesting, I find that it IS a lot more compact, but I haven't lost any of the readability of the code that I used the first form for. -- >From the dungeons of the Warlock: Chuck Von Rospach ucbvax!amd70!packet!cfv (chuqui@mit-mc) <- obsolete!