From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] C style for loop
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:34:29 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110111334.PAA0000014200@beaune.inria.fr> (raw)
>At 2:47 PM +0200 11/10/01, Berke Durak wrote:
>>Do you really pretend that ``C-style for loops'' have ``self-evident
>>readability merits'' ?! My opinion is that ```C-style'' loop syntax
>>IS unreadable, ununderstandable and unprovable. How many people using
>>C know the _exact_ semantics of :
>>
>> for(exp1;expr2;expr3){expr4}
>From: Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org>
>Sure, it's easy:
>
> {
> exp1;
> while (expr2){
> expr4;
> expr3;
> }
> }
>
>It's damn ugly, though, and with much unnecessary repetition of the
>control variable in simple cases.
It's incorrect, too. A "continue" statement within expr4 doesn't do
the same thing in both versions.
-- Damien
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next reply other threads:[~2001-10-11 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-11 13:34 Damien Doligez [this message]
2001-10-11 13:43 ` Bruce Hoult
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2001-10-11 5:47 Jeff Henrikson
2001-10-11 8:58 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-10-11 12:47 ` Berke Durak
2001-10-11 13:11 ` Bruce Hoult
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