Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!att!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!druhi!lbl From: lbl@druhi.ATT.COM (Barry Locklear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Laser C bug Summary: a suggestion Message-ID: <3393@druhi.ATT.COM> Date: 18 Aug 88 13:40:07 GMT References: <365@polyof.UUCP> Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO Lines: 24 In article <365@polyof.UUCP>, jeff@polyof.UUCP (A1 jeff giordano ) writes: -> -> Actually I wouldn't call it a bug, but more a deficience in the -> grammar. The following drove me nuts: -> -> for(x=-1; x<=1; x++) { ... } -> I wanted to loop from -1 to 1. However, the above is ambigous, it is an -> old style declaration. I did not find out until I tried my prog on our -> UNIX system. The UNIX cc gives: -> Warning: oldstyle declaration on line xx. -> -> Laser gives no such warning and actually takes whatever the previous -> value was and drecrements it by one. then does the loop. not what i thought it -> would do. Jeff, You probably figured this out already, but I'll send this out anyway. Instead of using "x=-1" try "x = -1". This should parse correctly. C originally allowed -= and =- to mean the same thing. Apparently Laser C still let's you do this. That's why I *always* put spaces around my operators! Barry