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small readability reorder

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Thought a bit about whether having OR instead of AND
changes performance, and concluded it probably didn't.

In particular, think about when it jumps to the inner
part of the if/else condition
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## Comparison with wc.
The GNU utils version ([github](https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/tree/master/src/wc.c), [savannah](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/wc.c;hb=HEAD)) is a bit over 1K lines of C. It does many things and checks many possible failure modes.
The GNU utils version ([github](https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/tree/master/src/wc.c), [savannah](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/wc.c;hb=HEAD)) is a bit over 1K lines of C. It does many things and checks many possible failure modes. I think it detects whether it should be reading from stdin using some very wrapped fstat.
The busybox version ([git.busybox.net](https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/coreutils/wc.c)) of wc is much shorter, at 257 lines, while striving to be [POSIX-compliant](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/), meaning it has flags.

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int wc(FILE* fp)
{
char c[1];
int seen_word = 0, seen_sep_after_word = 0, num_words = 0;
int word = 0, num_words = 0;
int fn = fileno(fp);
while (read(fn, c, sizeof(c)) > 0) {
if (*c == '\n' || *c == ' ' || *c == '\t') {
if (seen_word) {
seen_sep_after_word = 1;
}
if (*c != ' ' && *c != '\n' && *c != '\t') {
word = 1;
} else {
seen_word = 1;
}
// exercise: what happens if you only track seen_sep,
// instead of seen_sep_after_word?
// test with: $ echo " hello world" | ./wc
if (seen_word && seen_sep_after_word) {
if (word) {
num_words++;
seen_sep_after_word = seen_word = 0;
word = 0;
}
}
num_words+=seen_word;
}
num_words+=word;
printf("%i\n", num_words);
return 0;
}