C doubts

[Philip Potter]

However, in C, while and if are NOT functions, they are reserved
words (or the C equivalent). The following parentheses are not
delimiting arguments, they are defining the logical statement
involved.

I can see how my argument may have been confusing. What I meant was "all
functions depend only on their arguments, so it is impossible for a
function to use a WHILE which depends on a state-based guard." I didn't
say that IF or WHILE are functions.

 

[CBFalconer]

I can see how my argument may have been confusing. What I meant was
"all functions depend only on their arguments, so it is impossible
for a function to use a WHILE which depends on a state-based guard."
I didn't say that IF or WHILE are functions.

OK, cleared up. However, another annoying factor might be
explainable. In my earlier replies I have taken care to preserve
the missing blank line separators between paragraphs, and
especially between paragraphs originated by different people. They
have disappeared again in the above copy, leaving confusion. WHY?

 

[Philip Potter]

OK, cleared up. However, another annoying factor might be
explainable. In my earlier replies I have taken care to preserve
the missing blank line separators between paragraphs, and
especially between paragraphs originated by different people. They
have disappeared again in the above copy, leaving confusion. WHY?

I was unaware of this misquoting before you pointed this out. It seems
to be my newsreader (Mozilla Thunderbird). As an example, I have not
changed the quoting in this message at all, so you can see the effect it
has. Along with their ill-conceived "graphical quoting", these are two
misfeatures of the software.

 

[CBFalconer]

I was unaware of this misquoting before you pointed this out. It seems
to be my newsreader (Mozilla Thunderbird). As an example, I have not
changed the quoting in this message at all, so you can see the effect it
has. Along with their ill-conceived "graphical quoting", these are two
misfeatures of the software.

Sigh. Still insects in T'bird. That is why I use Netscape as my
newsreader. This is another one of which I was not aware. If I
ever get exclusively onto Linux I shall be very annoyed.