In article <14128 at oberon.USC.EDU> blarson at skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes: > for(p = FIRST; p->next != NULL; p = p->next) {} >uses a special two character sequence to denote the null statement, >and takes only a single line. I much prefer to use continue as the null statement in the context of a loop body, ie: for (p = FIRST; p->next != NULL; p = p->next) continue;