In article <[email protected]>,
Marc Balmer <[email protected]> wrote:
>Am 23.02.12 23:57, schrieb Joerg Sonnenberger:
>> Module Name: src
>> Committed By: joerg
>> Date: Thu Feb 23 22:57:53 UTC 2012
>>
>> Modified Files:
>> src/usr.bin/look: look.c
>>
>> Log Message:
>> Don't use while-loop with empty body.
>
>I see you did several such changes. What is the reason behind this,
>i.e. what is wrong with such loops?
They don't show the programmer's intend. I am still pissed off about me
spending hours debugging something that did:
if (condition);
a += 3;
But of course it was hidden in thousands of lines of code, so it was
hard to find.
christos
