The wonders of C

[cottrell at NBS-VMS]

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> It seems to me that the normally-cited "save keystrokes" reason for
> the =/== choice cannot be correct.  If it were, wouldn't the choice for
> the &/&& and |/|| operators be reversed?  &&'s are much more common than
> &'s in almost all C code I have seen.

It depends on how you write code. I do lotsa bit twiddling, therefore I
got lotsa `&' & `|'. I avoid multiple condition tests, therefore I 
seldom have `&&' & `||'. 

> It also seems clear that saving keystrokes is almost never a valid concern.
> What needs to be optimized is readability.  Even in the case of my own
> code, let alone others, I read it much more often than I write it.

There are thos of us who consider verbosity the scourge of readability.
`Begin' & `end', e.g.,just clutter up the listing & spread it out more. I
HAVE been bitten by saying `if (c = NL)' a lot tho. Oh well.

	jim		cottrell at nbs
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