Re: return in conditon - why not?

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:26 -0800, exander77@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> I am quite new to c++, about half of a year.
> I juct wonder, why such code is not possible:
> 
> int chlen(char * ar) {
>   for(int i=0;ar[i]||return i;i++);
> }

because it is totally unreadable?

> In my opinion, it would be much "cuter" than this:
> 
> int chlen(char * ar) {
>     int i;
>     for(i=0;ar[i];i++);
>     return i;
> }

Why not:

int chlen(char * ar)
{
    char *arc = ar;
    while (*arc) ++arc;
    return arc - ar;
}

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Tristan Wibberley

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