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From: bs@alice.UUCP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: condition convention 'if (10 == j)...'
Message-ID: <3677@alice.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-May-85 09:44:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 09:44:38 1985
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It is silly to warp ones programs to overcome language and/or compiler
deficiencies (though sometimes necessary). As mentioned before on the net,
it is however trivial for a C compiler to detect most occurrences of the
	if (j = 10)
bug. For example, on seeing that the C++ compiler issues this:
	"warning: constant assignment in condition"