Re: Seriously struggling with C

"Richard G. Riley" wrote:
On 2006-02-21, CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

.... snip ...

I wouldn't even consider anything other than the one liner:

while (EOF != (c = getchar())) putchar(c);

There is a very good reason why this should never be done.

Debuggers. It would be very hard to step into "putchar". Hence
the bog stand of

while((c=getchar())!=EOF)
putchar(c);

As someone who once had to spend an entire week breaking statement
lines down so that it would be "debugger friendly" I could never
recommend your solution.

Yet you are willing to eliminate the clarifying blanks in the
statement. At the same time I cannot remember when I last used a
debugger in anger. printf usually is adequate.

At any rate we all have our reasons for our preferances.

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