Thread: little sign convention i'm unfamiliar with

Stick it in a compiler and try it out - should be faster than waiting for someone
to give you an answer.

>while(|-->0)
My guess is that's a syntax error and would not compile. It probably should be:

Code:

while(l-->0)

Which is the same as:

Code:

while( (l--) > 0)

Or:

Code:

while( some_variable--) > 0)

It's not a syntax error. It's 2 separate operators. decrement followed by greater-than.

The parentheses to separate the operations are also unnecessary.

yuck @ (l-->0), sometimes white spaces really help.

>It's not a syntax error. It's 2 separate operators. decrement followed by greater-than.

In function `main':
parse error before '|' token

Ahh, sorry. I thought the | was an l. Way to go lame-ass fonts

I had to throw it into another editor, because I wasn't sure what it was. If that was indeed in their sample solutions, then somebody goofed.

No its my bad - i misread it as a '|' instead of an 'l' . Weird thing is theres no l defined anywhere?
not even a

Code:

int l-->0

...oh well.

edit: - Problem fixed

The code states the following :

Code:

//adds number of spaces.
void(char ch, int nlength)
{
  while(nLength-->0)
      putchar(ch);
}

Its code like this that makes me turn to C programming board! I would normally use a for loop and loop nLength times - but here the instructor starts with nLength and sets it to decrement till 0.

Also theres another loop where he passed an l to the function - i missed it.