A question of style

[Triantaphyllos Byron Rakitzis]

>>while (c = getchar(), c != EOF)
>>{
>
>The code above could be written as 
>
>	while (c = getchar && c  != EOF) { 
	
Mark H. Colburn                       mark at Minnetech.MN.ORG
Open Systems Architects, Inc.


No!! What if getchar returns the null character? Then this test fails.
The usual C syntax for the above statement is

       while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
            {

              blah blah;


Okay?


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