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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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