Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })

scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>

On 18/04/2025 19:10, James Kuyper wrote:
>

On 16.04.2025 13:01, bart wrote:
...
>

Unlike C's for, which is just a gimmick where you bundle three
potentially unrelated expressions and hope for the best.

>
If all you can do is "hope for the best", you're doing it wrong.
It's your job to ensure that they are not arbitrary unrelated
expressions, but correctly related expressions, and that's no
different from your responsibility for all of the other
expressions that make up your program.

>
If you find that problematic, you shouldn't be programming in
>

any language, but certainly not in C.

>
I see it didn't take you long to get to the personal insult.  What
is it with this group?

>
It's not an insult, it is a simple fact.

Any statement with the word "should" in it is a lot more likely
to be a statement of opinion than a statement of fact.