why no "do : until"?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <slrn9550fe.rvi.kc5tja at garnet.armored.net>, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:
>On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:19:19 GMT, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>while (1)
>>>   {
>>>   T = f();
>>>   if (T < 25)
>>>       break;
>>>   }
>>
>>I used that C indentation style for years, but I finally gave
>>up since a) I could never get editors and the "indent" program
>>to do it automatically, and b) nobody else on my projects
>>wanted to do it that way, and it's important that all the
>>source code on a project be indented consistently.

[...]

>To make it self-consistent, you need to do this:
>
>void f2( int c )
>   {
>   int x = 0;
>   
>   while( x < c )
>      {
>      printf( "X=%d\n", x );
>      x++;
>      }
>   }

That's how I did it.  Except I used generally used 2 spaces per
level instead of 3.  That style was a hold-over from how
I learned to do write Pascal:

  if whatever then
    begin
    do something;
    do something else
    end;

>Though both methods are equally readable to me, I consider it
>to be rather ugly syntax.

Ya wanna talk about ugly? Apparently people pay prefectly good
money for Pontiac Aztecs. ;)

Personally, I find either style to be infinitely preferable to
the K&R style:

 if (whatever) {
   do something;
   do something else;
 } else {
   yet another thing;
 }
  
I simply can't read read code like that, and generally do an
'indent -gnu' on it before I try to figure out what's going on...  

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