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From: mike@sojurn.UUCP (Mike Sangrey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When do you use "if ( a = b )"? (was Re: Funny mistake)
Message-ID: <233@sojurn.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 91 22:03:55 GMT
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Reply-To: mike@sojurn.UUCP (Mike Sangrey)
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>) In article <775@camco.Celestial.COM> bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>) [concerning "if ( a = b )"
>) 
>) [Deleted ...]
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>) It's been my mistake everytime I've done it!! 

As an aside:  you should get into the habit of putting the constant and
function calls on the left of '=='.  That way when you mess up with a '='
the compiler will 'Bzzzzzt'.  The major problem with this idea is it looks
funny.  Of course, if we all did it this way ... ;-)

mike
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