self-contained loop style

utzoo!decvax!yale-com!bj utzoo!decvax!yale-com!bj
Sun Oct 24 17:06:04 AEST 1982


Whenever I see a "continue", I expect it to be a jump from the middle of
a loop with statements following it.  If I saw

	while (isspace(*++sp))
		continue;

it would not be what I expected and would make the program harder to
comprehend, not clearer.

					B.J.
					decvax!yale-comix!herbison-bj
					Herbison-BJ at Yale



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