Re: why are missing return statements from non-void functions not a
On Jul 30, 9:18 pm, Jens Schmidt <Jens.Schmidt...@gmx.de> wrote:
Goran Pusic wrote:
On Jul 29, 9:01 pm, Daniel Kr?gler <daniel.krueg...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
On 29 Jul., 17:05, Goran Pusic <gor...@cse-semaphore.com> wrote:
BTW, is the situation the same for C language?
void strcpy(char* dest, const char* src)
{
while (*dest++ = *src++);
}
into their C book, but he who wrote this today would
probably be called code red on in a code review. ;-)
[...]
This special pattern for copying is so common that every C/C++
programmer should know its function on sight, without any
reasoning about evaluation and precedence. So I see no problem
there.
I've a certain amount of experience, but I still have to scratch
my head about it. It's just not readable.
BTW: K&R didn't write this. Unlike some other well known environment,
in the beginning there was no void in C. :-)
K&R did have a very similar example in their first edition.
With a comment to the effect that it was questionable, but that
since you're likely to see it...
I guess I've just been lucky, but I haven't seen it that often.
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