Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: while loop vs do while loop reading from the file issue Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:54:55 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <52f1c174-6af1-4fda-9ff8-a5e2cf507b5f@googlegroups.com> <87poku5ism.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <8760ml5v5k.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <37e325fb-4aa8-4c84-9bcd-c1aa790fadc7@googlegroups.com> <87zijw3cfs.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <10e036fc-93fb-4d99-ba8f-1bbd16448b8c@googlegroups.com> <74cef61a-e3aa-4162-a9c7-22a89af0ce46@googlegroups.com> <58591225.764390@news.xs4all.nl> <428e33b4-36db-47f6-95a8-b86e9cba819a@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5af804fde095f0102ceb1f5e23093854"; logging-data="32712"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+g6EtYMNe1trrOQne4OJsw" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s8GcU1XGF2mOrWar/ZAYq/lhCY8= sha1:kmMYZKzD+8CENR68lAmAUMBQkwo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:101653 Malcolm McLean writes: > On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 10:41:29 AM UTC, Tim Rentsch wrote: [...] >> IMO you would be well advised to pay more attention to what other >> people are saying, rather than insisting on imparting your own >> world view - no matter how strongly or subconsciously you might >> believe it - on what are basically unimportant questions of >> terminology. >> > Loop and a half is your invention. No, it certainly is not. I suggest you feed the phrase "loop and a half" to the search engine of your choice. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"