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From: al@unhd.unh.edu (Anthony Lapadula)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When do you use "if ( a = b )"? (was Re: Funny mistake)
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.223605.24858@unhd.unh.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 22:36:05 GMT
References: <65837@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991Mar18.195351.11985@unlv.edu> <357@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au>
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In article <357@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au> michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning) writes:
>grover@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover) writes:
>
>Simply say 1000 times:
>
>	"I shalt never again use = instead of ==".

The way I remember this is simple.  I've made a mental note that "=="
is two characters long, as are "<=" and ">=".  When I read code to myself,
these latter two come out as "less than or equal" and "greater than or
equal";  "==" comes out as "equal equal."

Heck, maybe it only works for me.  :-)

-- Anthony (uunet!unhd!al, al@cs.unh.edu) Lapadula