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From: devine@asgb.UUCP (Robert J. Devine)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: "C" wish list/for(;;) loop
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Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 14:47:47 EST
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  One thing that should be changed for consistency reasons is
to get rid of  "for(;;)" meaning "endless loop".  This is the
exception to the equivalence of "for" with "while".  And, after
all, why should a null expression be considered TRUE?

  Yeah, I know, breaking existing code and all that....

Bob