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| From | Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com |
| Date | 2020-04-02 19:22 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <861rp5pauv.fsf@linuxsc.com> (permalink) |
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 27/02/2020 19:41, James Kuyper wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 12:02:53 PM UTC-5, Anton Shepelev wrote:
>>
>>> chad:
>>>
>>>> I've come to this horrible realization that I don't
>>>> understand a for loop as well as what I thought I did.
>>>
>>> Just don't abuse the for loop, cramping all kinds of
>>> unrelated code into its control expressions. ...
>>
>> I'm in full agreement with that.
>>
>>> ... Always use\
>>> it as a loop with a counter:
>>
>> But I can't agree that there's anything wrong with using any of the
>> following constructs:
>>
>> for(unsigned mask = 0x8000; mask; mask >>=1)
>>
>> for(Node* node=head; node; node = node->next)
>>
>> The first three user-controlled parts of a for-statement should be
>> reserved for loop-control, but there's many different ways to handle
>> loop control.
>
> unsigned mask = 0x8000h
> while (mask) {
> body;
> mask >>= 1;
> }
>
> Node * node = head;
> while (node) {
> body;
> node = node->next;
> }
It appears someone has a severe case of Old Dog syndrome.
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After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-02-25 06:55 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2020-02-27 20:02 +0300
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-27 11:41 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-02-27 14:48 -0700
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-27 23:17 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-27 16:40 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-28 01:08 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 01:37 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-28 06:21 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-28 16:15 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-28 10:37 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-28 19:22 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-01 14:54 +0100
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-01 15:36 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-01 17:08 +0100
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-02-27 21:57 -0500
Really??? (Was: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2020-02-28 13:06 +0000
Re: Really??? (Was: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com) chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 05:47 -0800
Re: Really??? (Was: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-28 05:59 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-28 14:04 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-28 17:50 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2020-02-28 20:59 +0300
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-28 22:37 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-29 00:17 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-29 01:01 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-04-02 19:22 -0700
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2020-02-27 14:52 -0500
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-27 20:42 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-27 22:59 +0100
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-27 20:48 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-03-27 20:06 -0700
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-02-27 15:28 -0800
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