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Subject: Re: How About Disallowing Assignments In Expressions?
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 07:31:38 -0800
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 00:53:42 +0000, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>
>> while( (ch = fgetc(fp)) != EOF)
>>
>> is the idiomatic way of accessing a stream a character by character in
>> C.  So you would disallow this.
>
> Yes!

What code would you write to accomplish the same thing, under the
assumption that what you're proposing is adopted?

As long as I'm asking, how would you write it in C as it is now?