Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile
Date	2015-08-30 22:36 +0100
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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
>> Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> writes:
> [...]
>>> As to arrays, I am using an array because this 
>>> exercise is part of the chapter on arrays.
>>
>> Ah.  Then I suspect you are doing it wrong.  Using an array in a
>> pointless way is unlikely to be what the exercise wants.
>
> I disagree.  I think the exercise (to compute the average of three
> floating-point values using an array) has two parts: to read values
> into an array, and to compute the average of the values in an array.
> Both are sensible things to do.  The fact that the combination
> is more easily done without using an array would be relevant in a
> real-world program, but not in an introductory exercise.

It looks like we agree but you say that you disagree so I must have made
my point badly.  Assigning to an array element which is then ignored is
"doing it wrong" and "unlikely to be what the exercise wants".  What you
describe is what the exercise probably wants.

-- 
Ben.

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Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 04:39 -0700
  Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-21 07:54 -0400
    Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 05:27 -0700
      Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-21 10:28 -0700
        Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 11:15 -0700
    Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 05:30 -0700
  Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2015-08-21 12:40 +0000
    Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 11:16 -0700
  Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-21 07:41 -0700
    Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-08-21 10:56 -0400
    Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-08-21 09:28 -0600
  Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-08-21 10:02 -0700
    Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 11:21 -0700
      Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-08-21 22:27 -0700
        Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 02:25 -0700
  Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 03:50 -0700
    Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-22 13:18 +0100
      Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 11:21 -0700
        Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-22 21:55 +0100
          Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 01:36 -0700
            Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-26 11:24 +0100
        Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-08-22 17:17 -0700
          Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 01:26 -0700
            Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-08-26 02:27 -0700
              Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 04:21 -0700
                Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-26 12:37 +0100
                Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 13:06 +0100
                Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-26 13:43 +0100
                Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-26 14:03 +0100
                Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 14:06 +0100
                Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-06 15:14 -0700
                Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-26 11:38 -0700
                Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-26 11:44 -0700
    Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-08-22 10:49 -0700
      Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 11:16 -0700
  Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 07:19 -0700
    Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-29 15:35 +0100
      Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 02:11 -0700
        Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-30 12:28 +0100
          Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-30 15:02 -0700
            Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-30 22:36 +0100
              Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-30 16:10 -0700
                Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-31 00:14 +0100
                Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-30 19:56 -0700
    Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-29 16:57 +0100
      Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-29 17:37 +0100
      Re: Initializing sum to zero wouldn't compile Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 02:14 -0700

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