BL> Incredible! Paul follows a standard which surrounds every sinple
BL> if() {}; with the curly brackets over four lines, even when it is
BL> asingle statement best placed on one line to be read at once. This
BL> means that a string of simple if(){}; becomes almost incomprehensible
BL> inside a larger loop or whatever!

Funny, you were just complaining about short-hand.  Basically, if your loop
is so large that it can't handle that, it's too large anyway, time to split
off into a function.

BL> And to prove it... adding comments in C is awkward. Borland solved
BL> it with the one-line comment "//" but this isn't ANSI
which insists on
BL> the /*...*/ which won't nest. It's the final proof. C programmers are
BL> all wankers. All of them.

That's C++, not Borland.  It's part of the C++ standard.  BFN.  Paul. 
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