On 2021-09-12 10:28:22 -0700, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
> On 2021-09-11 at 18:21:17 +0100,
> Alan Gauld via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> > On 11/09/2021 15:41, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > > How is C's do/while loop more horrible than Pascal's repeat/until?
[...]
> > so code that has
> >
> > do{
> > code
> > }
> > while condition;
> >
> > Looks, for non-trivial cases, like a lot of code followed
> > by an empty while loop.
> >
> > The do is easy to miss and the while loop disguised as
> > a repeat termination is confusing.
[...]
> (Side question: why put the "{" next to the "do," but the "}" and the
> "while" on separate lines?)
>
> And I would put the while on the same line as the closing brace (which
> is also where I put the "else" in an if statement):
>
> do {
> code;
> } while(condition);
Me too.
I also checked two C books from "þe olde times" (K&R, 1st editiion,
German translation; and "A Book on C" by Kelley/Pohl) and both nestle the
while on the same line as the closing brace.
hp
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