From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: d80211: clean up some list and loop code
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:37:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163720260.3392.24.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061116232455.GA3297@tuxdriver.com>
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> > Ever heard of while loops?
was more about
> "for (; condition ;)".
:)
> FWIW, I think I prefer the "for (;;)" version for endless loops.
> It looks more intentional to me. Some grep'ing showed nearly equal
> usage of "for (;;)" versus "while (1)". Is there any "official"
> preference? I don't see anything in CodingStyle about it.
I think while (1) looks more intentional, but I suppose that's because I
grew up with pascal where you can't do all these weird things with for
loops.
Feel free to drop this part of the patch if you wish, or, if you want, I
can resend without that too :)
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-16 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-16 23:04 d80211: clean up some list and loop code Johannes Berg
2006-11-16 23:25 ` John W. Linville
2006-11-16 23:37 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2006-11-17 0:00 ` John W. Linville
2006-11-17 0:26 ` John W. Linville
2006-11-17 2:37 ` Dave Dillow
2006-11-16 23:40 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-11-16 23:42 ` Johannes Berg
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