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Subject: Re: A free compiler you might not have heard about ...

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 06:28:48 04/19/02

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On April 19, 2002 at 09:18:02, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>On April 19, 2002 at 05:38:16, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On April 19, 2002 at 03:53:35, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>    if (pawn_rank[LIGHT][f] == 6);      /* pawn hasn't moved */
>>>                                ^
>>>eval.c(335) : Warning 7: possible extraneous ';'
>>>    if (pawn_rank[DARK][f] == 1);
>>>                               ^
>>>eval.c(382) : Warning 7: possible extraneous ';'
>>
>>Is TSCP buggy?
>>
>>I think this is a very valuable warning, too bad neither
>>MSVC, Intel C or gcc don't have it.
>
>Are you sure? I have seen once this warning in my program (it was a typo)
>and I only use MVSC and cygwin. I wonder if it is because I had all the warnings
>on. Maybe my memory is tricking me.
>
>Anyway
>
>if (bool_var);
>
>is a terrible style.
>Much better could be
>
>if (bool_var)
>    ;
>
>IMHO, of course.
>
>Regards,
>Miguel

Well, since the only reason for these constructs is either a bug or an intended
side-effect, I consider both version approx equally terrible. :)

But then, the next version of C++ will probably declare the semicolon as an
operator and it will also be overloadable one. ;)

Sargon



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