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| From | Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple |
| Date | 2013-01-13 20:28 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87ehhpkkd7.fsf@bazspaz.fatphil.org> (permalink) |
| References | <kcngpa$2jl$1@dont-email.me> |
Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> writes:
> Suppose you have a function 'bar' that returns a value that means one of:
> - Do 'foo' zero times
> - Do 'foo' one time
> - Do 'foo' more than one time
>
> What's your favourite way of handling such a value? For example:
>
> while ((more = bar()) != cv_zero_times) {
> /* Do it at least once */
> foo();
>
> /* Do it more than once? */
> if (more != cv_more_times)
> break;
> }
Vomit. Doesn't even satisfy your initial description either (which
makes no mention of calling 'bar' multiple times).
From what you've actually described, I'd do:
int count=bar(); /* 0, 1, or more */
while(count) {
foo();
count -= (count&1); /* never drops below 2 */
}
Phil
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Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2013-01-10 17:53 -0500
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-01-10 23:26 +0000
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2013-01-10 18:49 -0500
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-01-11 00:23 +0000
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-01-11 03:20 +0000
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2013-01-11 00:38 -0500
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Bart van Ingen Schenau <bart@ingen.ddns.info.invalid> - 2013-01-11 12:10 +0000
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2013-01-11 13:37 -0500
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-01-11 12:15 +0000
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2013-01-11 13:56 -0500
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Fred K <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2013-01-11 11:15 -0800
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2013-01-11 14:28 -0500
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Greg Martin <greg@softsprocket.com> - 2013-01-11 11:22 -0800
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2013-01-11 15:23 -0500
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Greg Martin <greg@softsprocket.com> - 2013-01-11 13:09 -0800
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-01-11 22:09 +0000
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Paul N <gw7rib@aol.com> - 2013-01-12 04:49 -0800
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2013-01-13 20:30 -0500
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-01-11 21:02 +0000
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-01-13 20:28 +0200
Re: Favourite Pattern for Processing Zero, Once, Multiple Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2013-01-13 16:12 -0500
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