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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 11:34:59 -0800
From: obrien@NUXI.com (David O'Brien)
To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters)
Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail
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Wes Peters writes:
> Neither is particularly elegant.  I suggest:
> 
> 	for (...)
> 	{
> 	}

Actually I use:

    for (...) {/*empty*/}

so that it will be obvious to green C coders (yes many East Coast gov.
contractors will throw someone straght from college on a project w/o a
life jacket).
 
> Yes, please.  Always: keyword ( and functionname(, no deviations
> allowed!  ;^)

Yes, p-l-e-a-s-e.  Makes grep'ing easier.
 
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-- David	(obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)