Answers to Tom Duff's stylistic conundrums presented in “Reading Code From Top to Bottom”, http://www.iq0.com/notes/deep.nesting.html

gistfile1.h

/* answers to Tom Duff's stylistic conundrums presented in
   [Reading Code From Top to Bottom]
   (http://www.iq0.com/notes/deep.nesting.html)
 */

char *skip(char *s, int c) {
	char cc;
	for(;;) {
		if(!*s) break;
		cc = *s++;
		if(cc==c) break;
	}
	return s;
}

/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */

char *stopword = "/*%";
char *cursor = stopword;

while(*cursor){
	c=getc(f);
	if(c==EOF) { /* handle error */ }
	if(c!=*cursor) cursor=stopword;
	if(c==*cursor) ++cursor;
}