Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:30:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> Cc: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your commentary gripe (was Re: svgalib? (forget the newbies) ) Message-ID: <19971030153058.18462@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19971029232514.13923@mph124.rh.psu.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 11:25:14PM -0500 References: <Pine.SV4.3.95.971030105519.17577D-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> <199710300325.WAA20048@dyson.iquest.net> <19971029232514.13923@mph124.rh.psu.edu>
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On Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 11:25:14PM -0500, Matthew Hunt wrote: > [ moved from -hackers to -chat, since I'm being silly] > > On Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 10:25:36PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > >>> i++; /* add one to i */ > > I would suggest: > > i++; /* Do nothing with i, and then add one to it */ > > To distinguish it from the very different: > > ++i; /* Add one to i, and then do nothing with it */ Does anybody remember the flow chart generators of the 70's? They really produced nonsense like this in appropriate shaped boxes. But it kept the managers happy :-) Greg
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