Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: == vs =
Message-ID: <516@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 88 17:05:43 GMT
References: <11216@brl-adm.ARPA> <2111@chinet.UUCP> <4403@garfield.UUCP> <130@obie.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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Summary: use of = in if

< In article <226@hotlr.ATT>, dkc@hotlr.ATT (Dave Cornutt) writes:
< > [...]                               D is another matter; catching the
< > accidental misapplication of "=" in "if" statements would be worth it.
< 
< The one thing that everyone seems to have forgotten in this discussion
< is that `=' is NOT always invalid in and if clause:

Just for the record, some of use both flavors in an |if| test...

{
FILE	*fp;

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

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