From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 29 21:01:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA14209 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA14200 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:01:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id PAA01067; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:30:58 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971030153058.18462@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:30:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Matthew Hunt Cc: "John S. Dyson" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your commentary gripe (was Re: svgalib? (forget the newbies) ) References: <199710300325.WAA20048@dyson.iquest.net> <19971029232514.13923@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <19971029232514.13923@mph124.rh.psu.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 11:25:14PM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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