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Subject: Re: Writing readable code
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Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 20:28:42 EDT
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In article <525@murphy.UUCP>, Dave Cornutt <dave@murphy.uucp> writes,
>...any halfway decent compiler should be able to
>recognize that "if (p)" and "if (p == NULL)" are the same and generate
>the same code.

I'd hope that any decent compiler would recognize that they are
completely opposite.  The fact that it easy to make the above mistake is
precisely the reason why one of these constructs is not clear.  I leave
it as an exercise to the reader to decide which one.

Dan <DHowell.ElSegundo@Xerox.COM>

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