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From: cg@myriasb.UUCP (Chris Gray)
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Subject: Re: more about programming style
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 13:49:54 EDT
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Perhaps I'm being a bit sarcastic, but could it be that the reason experienced
C programmers often use

	if ((fp = fopen("file", "r")) == NULL) ...

is that the compiler will complain if you write

	if ((fp = fopen("file", "r")) = NULL) ...

whereas it won't complain about

	fp = fopen("file", "r");
	if (fp = NULL) ...

???