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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint won't verify printf formatting against variable types??
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Date: 6 Jul 89 07:53:14 GMT
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In article <16399.24B11BBE@urchin.fidonet.org> Bob.Stout@p6.f506.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Bob Stout) writes:

>As to `if (x = 5)', I   
>thought most C programmers nowadays always wrote the constant part of a  
>logical comparison on the left side as a regular issue of style.

And what about `if (x = y)' ?

Even when one of those is a constant, sure some PROTECTION is obtained
by reversing the operands, but not STYLE.

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