Loop-and-a-half (Re: Curious assignment behaviour)

[David Bolen]

Dale Strickland-Clark <dale at riverhall.NOSPAMco.uk> writes:

> Not so. It can avoid an extra enclosing block in cases such as:
> 
> if (x==y) 
> 	for (initialise loop; ....) 
> 		do something
> 
> Which is less fussy than
> 
> if (x==y)
> {	initialise loop
> 	for (....)
> 		do something
> }

Except that I'd never recommend writing the former (initialization or
not) since you're just asking for maintenance headaches later when
someone tries to add a new statement to the conditional and forgets to
add the block back in.

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-- David
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