Re: walking through an array of char pointers

From: Joe Wright (joewwright_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:52:17 -0400

pete wrote:

> Joe Wright wrote:
>
>>pete wrote:
>
>
>>> for (np = names; *np != NULL; ++np) {
>>> puts(*np);
>>> }
>
>
>>Ok, printf is too complicated but for is too.
>
>
>> char **np = names;
>> while (*np) puts(*np++);
>
>
> As points of style,
> I prefer to compare pointers against NULL explicitly,
> I always use compound statements with loops, ifs and elses,
> and I prefer not to have side effects in function arguments.

A chacun son gout.

I seriously prefer 'if (p)' over 'if (p != NULL)'.

By 'compound statememts' I suppose you mean curly braces. The use of
curly braces to encompass one statement annoys me.

Expressing 'foo(a++)' is well defined. That a is incremented is not
a side effect. It is an explicit part of the language.

I hope this disagreement doesn't mean we can't play anymore. :=) 

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