[Info-vax] decrementing & for loops in C

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:57:47 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) 
wrote:

> Ah...  Tried a different one of my test examples.  I got it.
> Another case of the programmer relying on the compiler for
> soemthing that should have been his job.  Am I the only one
> that sees adding all this extra stuff to the compiler as a bad
> thing as it makes the programmers lazier and then lets bugs thru
> that a human would catch if they actually took the time to
> review their code instead of trusting a machine to find all
> their mistakes?

Probably! But I learned C so long ago that I don't tend to make that 
mistake (at least; I make other ones...) much any more. We had the first
UNIX system in England...

-- 
Bob Eager