How not to write a loop

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <832 at unmvax.unm.edu> mike at turing.UNM.EDU.UUCP (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
>	float x;
>	for (x = 0; x < 20; x += .5)
>		printf("%f\n", x);
>The output would, of course, be
>	0.0
	...
>	19.5

and, perhaps,
	20.0
(ignoring the nit that this isn't quite the format specified).

That is why the original poster didn't want to see such loop control
in putative portable programs.