"for" loops (was Re: C++ vs. Modula2)

[Geoff Rimmer]

In article <6419 at polya.Stanford.EDU> crew at Polya.Stanford.EDU (Roger Crew) writes:
>Here's a quiz:
>How would you write the following in C?
>
>	VAR a, b, c : Char;
>	...
>	FOR c = a TO b DO ... END;
>
>You can even assume that the body of the loop affects neither a nor b.
>Hint:  the answer is *not*
>
>	char a, b, c;
>	...
>	for (c = a; c <= b; ++c) { ... }
>
>(just try a = 0 and b = 255 in the case of 8 bit chars).
>--

What a stupid question.  If you are going to count from 0 to 255, you
wouldn't use char in the first place - you'd use unsigned char, or
int.  I can't see what you're getting at, at all.

Go back to writing Fortran.  Let the *real* programmers use C. :-)

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