A question of style

[Mark H. Colburn]

In article <427 at jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG> I write:
>The code above could be written as 
>
>	while (c = getchar && c  != EOF) { 
>	    ... 
>	}

Hmmm.  Hopefully I can point out my own error before someone else does.

This will work on most interactive terminals under Unix since most tty 
drivers assume that a NUL is a pad  character but it looses on anything 
that will recognize a NUL ('\0') character as a valid character on the
input stream.  In those cases, the ',' would be the only choice if you did
not want to split the statement into to parts.



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Mark H. Colburn                       mark at Minnetech.MN.ORG
Open Systems Architects, Inc.