Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pwcmrd!skipnyc!atpal!tneff
From: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Style (Was Re: == vs =)
Message-ID: <131@atpal.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 16:47:47 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> <2823@mmintl.UUCP>
Reply-To: uunet!pwcmrd!skipnyc!atpal!tneff (Tom Neff)
Organization: Rational Technologies, Inc.
Lines: 13
Summary: amen

In article <2823@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>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.

I agree completely, Frank, and thanks for the correction.  I meant to say
"non-boolean variable" (or at least I realize that now :-)). Of course, now
we could get into the etiquette of  if(boolean-assignment-expression)... 

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