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From: kdq@demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Funny mistake
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.212053.16302@demott.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 21:20:53 GMT
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In article <wolfram.667581530@cip-s05> wolfram@cip-s05.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) writes:
>Hello out there,
>I had a funny mistake the other day you might be interested in. It was an
>obvious syntax error which resulted in legal C code. Funny too how many times
>I read over it without seeing whats wrong.
>
>What I wanted to write was:
>
>	if (fct(a,b,c))
>
>but by mistake I wrote:
>
>	if (fct(a,b),c)
>
>Easy to see here, but hard to discover when it's not a b c but some speaking
>variable names like NoOfLines or ErrorFlag or FilePtr or something.
>
>Perhaps that's why many people refuse to use speaking variable names... :)


    This is why god invented prototypes.


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