Thanks. I still find these a bit more palatable than your loop-in-an-else-in-a-loop (there are no elses and no loops inside ifs here), but yeah, I can imagine t

Thanks. I still find these a bit more palatable than your loop-in-an-else-in-a-loop (there are no elses and no loops inside ifs here), but yeah, I can imagine that K&R might have written it the same way as you did.