why no "do : until"?

D-Man dsh8290 at rit.edu
Wed Jan 3 10:02:13 EST 2001


On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:45:29PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
[...] 
> Personally, I find either style to be infinitely preferable to
> the K&R style:
> 
>  if (whatever) {
>    do something;
>    do something else;
>  } else {
>    yet another thing;
>  }
>   
> I simply can't read read code like that, and generally do an
> 'indent -gnu' on it before I try to figure out what's going on...  

It's too bad the Java people at Sun didn't learn this lesson yet.  ;-)

-D




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