Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ?
To   : comp.programming
From : Giannis Papadopoulos
Date : Sat Aug 13 2005 12:41 pm

Chris Sonnack wrote:
> Charles Richmond writes:
> 
> 
>>In C, the word TRUE is typically defined as 1 and FALSE defined
>>as 0. This guy made FALSE an integer variable, and changed the
>>value a few times in the code.
> 
> 
> Yikes!
> 
> My horror story is about the self-described C programmer, who'd
> been at it for many years, and who was surprised when I showed
> him you could 'break' out of a for or while loop.....
> 

But surely the most interesting is that many people think that using a 
'break' or a 'continue' is bad programming practice...

-- 
one's freedom stops where other's begin

Giannis Papadopoulos
http://dop.users.uth.gr/
University of Thessaly
Computer & Communications Engineering dept.

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