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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Style (Was Re: == vs =)
Message-ID: <2823@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 88 23:13:38 GMT
References: <11216@brl-adm.ARPA> <2111@chinet.UUCP> <4403@garfield.UUCP> <226@hotlr.ATT> <130@obie.UUCP> <5981@utcsri.UUCP> <1982@ubc-cs.UUCP> <126@atpal.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Ashton-Tate Corporation, East Hartford Development Center
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In article <126@atpal.UUCP> tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
>If you get into the habit of never writing if(variable),
>you don't tend to have =/== accidents, in my experience.

I wouldn't say "never write if(variable)"; rather "only write if(variable)
if variable is Boolean".  In my opinion, things like if(variable==TRUE) are
abominations.
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Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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