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From: cdm@gem-hy.Inel.GOV (Dale Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: One more point regarding = and == (more flamage)
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.223920.3261@inel.gov>
Date: 28 Mar 91 22:39:20 GMT
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References: <925@isgtec.UUCP> <1991Mar26.184245.3538@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1991Mar26.184245.3538@chinet.chi.il.us>,
les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
|> In article <925@isgtec.UUCP> robert@isgtec.UUCP writes:
|> >|>  a) while (*foo++ = *bar++)
|> >|>  b) while (*foo ++ == *bar++)
|> >|>  c) while ((*foo++ = *bar++) != 0)
|> 
|> >Well the biggest argument has been if you use a) the maintainer can't tell
|> >if you meant a) or b);  if you use c) the maintainer KNOWS you meant a).
|> >This isn't rubbish.
|> 
|> If you assume that the programmer didn't make a mistake (i.e. typed
|> what he was thinking), then a) is just as obvious as c).  If you
|> assume that he did make a mistake, then c) is probably more likely
|> to be wrong that a).  More characters = more chances to screw up.
                                         ^
                                         Don't you mean '==' ??

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