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Re: Comma operator in for() statements

From Guillaume <message@bottle.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Comma operator in for() statements
Date 2020-03-25 15:10 +0100
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Le 22/03/2020 à 17:16, Scott a écrit :
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:55:14 +0100, felix@palmen-it.de (Felix Palmen)
> wrote:
> 
>> * Bart <bc@freeuk.com>:
>>> You seem to be forgetting that C HAS a while-loop.
>>
>> You seem to be forgetting that this is actually *the same*¹
>>
>>     statement1;
>>     while (condition) {
>>         [...]
>>         statement2;
>>     }
>>
>> is always *exactly* the same as:
>>
>>     for (statement1; condition; statement2) {
>>         [...]
>>     }
> 
> This is almost always true, except in one circumstance: a while
> statement requires a condition expression, but a for statement does
> not. "for(;;){}" is common shorthand for an infinite loop. There is
> probably a historical reason that for-loops have a default of 'true'
> for an empty loop-condition, but I don't know the details. It must
> have made sense at the time.

I don't know the rationale, but I think all this is a lot of noise for 
not much.

As I see it, the for construct in C is nothing more (at least initially) 
than syntax sugar coating for the above while construct. It's so common 
that a loop have an initialization part, a condition, and some kind of 
"iteration" part, that the for construct was pretty obvious IMO at the 
time as a nice shortcut.

Any 3 statements of a for loop is optional, not just the condition.
That makes it more flexible. Whereas you may question for loops without 
conditions (except for infinite loops), for loops without initilizer can 
be more common, so I see this as just consistency across all 3 statements.

One thing that's really different between for and while, beginning with 
C99, is that local declarations are allowed in the initalizer statement, 
making them strictly local to the loop, something you just can't do with 
a 'while' AFAIK. Such as: 'for (int i = 0; ...)'. Impossible with a 
while. That would be something like:

int i = 0;
while (...)
...

making 'i' visible from the while down to the end of the block 
containing the declaration.

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Comma operator in for() statements Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-21 19:51 -0700
  Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-22 03:31 +0000
    Re: Comma operator in for() statements Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-21 23:17 -0700
      Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-22 12:00 +0000
        Re: Comma operator in for() statements Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-22 08:57 -0700
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-22 16:20 +0000
            Re: Comma operator in for() statements Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-22 14:02 -0700
              Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-22 21:26 +0000
    Re: Comma operator in for() statements David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-22 10:25 +0100
    Re: Comma operator in for() statements Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-03-22 08:27 -0400
      Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-22 16:31 +0000
  Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-22 00:33 -0400
  Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-22 12:23 +0000
    Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-22 05:47 -0700
      Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-22 14:17 +0000
        Re: Comma operator in for() statements felix@palmen-it.de (Felix Palmen) - 2020-03-22 15:55 +0100
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-22 15:01 +0000
            Re: Comma operator in for() statements felix@palmen-it.de (Felix Palmen) - 2020-03-22 16:05 +0100
              Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-22 16:46 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements felix@palmen-it.de (Felix Palmen) - 2020-03-22 18:14 +0100
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-22 11:42 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-22 22:03 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-22 23:51 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-23 14:37 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 08:41 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Guillaume <message@bottle.org> - 2020-03-23 16:53 +0100
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-23 16:31 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-23 16:48 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 09:53 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-23 18:59 +0100
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 11:23 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-23 19:51 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-23 14:28 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 13:09 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 13:20 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-03-23 20:26 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 13:55 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 15:43 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 16:27 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 17:13 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 21:11 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-24 00:19 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-24 10:30 +0100
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-03-24 03:07 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-24 11:37 +0100
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-24 11:18 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-24 13:23 +0100
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-24 14:53 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-25 10:35 +0100
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-25 11:12 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ike Naar <ike@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2020-03-26 19:21 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2020-03-24 21:22 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-03-27 06:46 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2020-03-28 01:01 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-28 11:26 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2020-03-28 14:22 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-04-02 08:12 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2020-04-02 12:21 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-04-02 19:43 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-03-24 12:56 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-24 23:44 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-23 17:10 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-24 10:17 +0100
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-23 18:13 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-23 09:32 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-23 19:06 +0100
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-03-23 13:23 -0400
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 10:33 -0700
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Guillaume <message@bottle.org> - 2020-03-23 18:34 +0100
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-23 18:18 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ike Naar <ike@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2020-03-23 22:29 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-23 23:13 +0000
            Re: Comma operator in for() statements richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2020-03-22 15:17 +0000
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2020-03-22 16:16 +0000
            Re: Comma operator in for() statements Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 07:22 -0700
            Re: Comma operator in for() statements Guillaume <message@bottle.org> - 2020-03-25 15:10 +0100
              Re: Comma operator in for() statements Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-03-25 15:18 +0000
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-22 16:27 +0000
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-22 15:07 -0400
        Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-22 11:33 -0700
      Re: Comma operator in for() statements Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2020-03-24 20:25 +0300
        Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-24 23:25 +0000
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-25 01:55 +0000
            Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-25 11:01 +0000
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2020-03-25 14:59 +0300
            Re: Comma operator in for() statements Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-03-27 07:42 -0700
              Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-27 14:51 +0000
                Re: Comma operator in for() statements Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-04-02 19:20 -0700
        Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-24 20:01 -0400
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-25 02:05 +0000
            Re: Comma operator in for() statements Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-25 15:13 +0000
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2020-03-25 15:05 +0300
            Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-25 10:04 -0400
    Re: Comma operator in for() statements David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-22 14:49 +0100
  Re: Comma operator in for() statements Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-03-22 09:24 -0600
    Re: Comma operator in for() statements Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-22 14:51 -0700
      Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-22 20:13 -0400
        Re: Comma operator in for() statements Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-23 12:16 -0700
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 13:16 -0700
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-23 17:16 -0400
            Re: Comma operator in for() statements scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-03-23 22:40 +0000
  Re: Comma operator in for() statements Guillaume <message@bottle.org> - 2020-03-22 17:31 +0100
    Re: Comma operator in for() statements Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-22 12:28 -0700
      Re: Comma operator in for() statements James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-22 15:35 -0400
        Re: Comma operator in for() statements Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-22 13:43 -0700
  Re: Comma operator in for() statements Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2020-03-22 13:50 -0500
    Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-22 19:25 +0000
      Re: Comma operator in for() statements David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-22 21:52 +0100
        Re: Comma operator in for() statements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-22 21:15 +0000
          Re: Comma operator in for() statements David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-23 09:17 +0100
  Re: Comma operator in for() statements Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-03-27 08:02 -0700

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