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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:14:32 -0700
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 17/04/2025 01:26, Keith Thompson wrote:
[...]
>> I think the misunderstanding is over the meaning of the rather
>> vague word "unusual".
>
> It seems to be happening a lot! SL is now claiming he never said what
> he did in fact say. JP has their own 'misunderstanding'. All trying to
> score some minor victory.
>
> Would it kill anybody here to admit I might be right about something
> or that I have a point?

I have done so.  It did not kill me.

>> Did you really think that Janis was claiming that "the majority of
>> loops in any given program will have steps other than +1 or -1"?
>
> Why don't you ask them to clarify?

Because I believed that I understood what was written well enough that
asking for clarification would have been noise.  Because I am very
nearly certain that Janis does not believe, and did not claim, that "the
majority of loops in any given program will have steps other than +1 or
-1".  I needed no clarification.

I've answered your question.  Will you answer mine?

Or feel free to drop it and not reply at all.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */