Hello Bill!

Replying to a message of Bill Birrell to Darin McBride:

 JB>>> and possibly even better re-written to use a char* instead

 JB>>>  for( s=target ; *s ; s++ ) {

 >> Yes, I like this even more ;-)

 BB>     Not much point in using a for(;;) loop at all then. Why not just:-

 BB>     char *s=target;
 BB>     while(*s++) {...};

 BB>     simpler, neater, more direct.

See my previous point about pre-increment vs post-increment.  While it's
unimportant here, think about a C++ object where each character, or each 60
characters are in a linked list, so an iterator goes through each one ...
and needs to copy itself to do the post-increment.

So, it's a matter of habit ;-)

Darin

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