A question of style

[barmar at think.com]

I hope you're prepared for a flood of followups (I know *I've* gotten them
when I've goofed like this)....

In article <427 at jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG> mark at jhereg.minnetech.mn.org (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
>The code above could be written as 
>	while (c = getchar && c  != EOF) { 
>Which most programmers would find "more intuitive" than the comma seperated
>one.

Except, of course, that it is *not* equivalent (and I'm ignoring the
missing parentheses after "getchar").  In the comma-separated version the
loop only ends when getchar() returns EOF.  Your version terminates the
loop when getchar() returns either 0 (e.g. if the user types Control-@) or
EOF.
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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