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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Assignment in test: OK?
Message-ID: <28314:Sep1221:17:1990@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 90 21:17:19 GMT
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In article <1599@mitisft.Convergent.COM> dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes:
> I saw this in some code posted to the net awhile ago:
>    if (foo = 0)		/* Really an assignment */
> Which is at least intelligible, and (possibly) rules out item 2 above.
> I still don't think it is good coding practice.

Probably not, as the if will always evaluate to false. :-)

---Dan