Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!megatest!djones
From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A coding exercise
Message-ID: <652@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 88 22:42:45 GMT
References: <30563@cca.CCA.COM>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <30563@cca.CCA.COM>, by g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter):
> In article <77200036@p.cs.uiuc.edu> kenny@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

...

[ Code omited. ]

> Now this is quite pretty in its way -- the logic is clear and the number
> of statements is a minimum.  Perhaps Mr. Rubin will want to use this as
> an example in his campaign on behalf of the goto :-)!  I will leave the
> translation of this code back into goto-less C as an exercise for the 
> reader.


If the "logic is clear and the number of statements is minimum," don't
muck with it.  You have better things to do than to improve clear efficient
code.  For example, you could be at the beach, getting your exercise for
the reader from a cheap novel.



			-- Dave J.