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From: rogerh@bocklin.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: condition convention
Message-ID: <137@bocklin.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 13:56:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 13:56:25 1985
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Reply-To: rogerh@bocklin.UUCP (Roger Hayes)
Organization: Dept of CS, U of Arizona, Tucson
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To prevent silly mistakes like 
	if (j = 10)
I usually write
	if (10 == j)
By putting the constant first, I ensure that the compiler will catch the 
typo.