David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> which I think is the prevalent style in our codebase.  The same for
>> the other loop we see in the new code below.
>>
>>  - avoid assignments in conditionals when you do not have to.
>
> commit a77a48c259d9adbe7779ca69a3432e493116b3fd
> Author: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
> Date:   Tue Jan 28 13:55:59 2014 -0800
>
>     combine-diff: simplify intersect_paths() further
> [...]
>
> +       while ((p = *tail) != NULL) {
>
> Because we can.

Be reasonable.  You cannot sensibly rewrite it to

        p = *tail;
        while (p) {
                ...
                p = *tail;
        }

when you do not know how ... part would evolve in the future.

        if ((p = *tail) != NULL) {
                ...

is a totally different issue.

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