how has C bitten you? (Really, style)

[Alan Fargusson]

>	Here's one that just got me:
>
>		if (sv > score);   <----- note extraneous semi-colon
>			score = sv;
>
>	This was in a series of computations which gave various scores; the
>fragment above was repeated in various places to pick out the maximum.  Of
>course, the test is a no-op and the assignment was always done.  Naturally,
>this passes lint (even with the -h flag which uses "heuristic tests to
>attempt to intuit bugs") without any complaint.
>--
>Roy Smith <allegra!phri!roy>

I have to tell you that I got bit the same way in PASCAL when I was
a student. This is not just a C problem. I think that all of the
strucutred languages I have seen (except Modula-2, and Algol 68)
have this problem.
-- 

Alan Fargusson.

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