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From: gsh7w@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
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Subject: Re: Funny mistake
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#>>"if (a = b)" instead of "if (a == b)". 
#>... I have yet to see a UNIX compiler complain about it

Doug Gwyn:
#That's good, because it is valid C and the compiler cannot know whether
#or not it reflects the programmer's intentions.

Then perhaps that is why having an optional flag to inform the user of
this sometimes suspicious code fragment may be a good idea.



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