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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:09:52 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....
Message-ID:  <20091020150952.GB42322@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091020054241.ce4a38fe.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <20091019013337.GA9522@thought.org> <4ADBFDBA.6040702@pchotshots.com> <20091019170634.GA12371@thought.org> <4ADCAB4F.5040707@mahan.org> <20091020054241.ce4a38fe.freebsd@edvax.de>

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 05:42:41AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> Just a little and quite formal side note:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:09:19 -0700, Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org> wrote:
> >                while (*tp != '\0' && *tp++ != '<');
> 
> It's often a good choice, especially for increasing readability
> of code, to code the "empty statement" on a line on its own (as
> you usually put any statements on an own line for clarity), so
> the reader doesn't accidentally take it as and "end of command"
> notification, e. g.
> 
> 	while(1)
> 		;
> 
> instead of
> 
> 	while(1);

Agreed. I did exactly this in a code sample posted earlier in this
thread.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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