Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard indentation?
Message-ID: <2422@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 12 Dec 88 02:02:36 GMT
References: <1988Dec8.173158.11839@utzoo.uucp> <846@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Organization: SCADA
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In article <846@starfish.Convergent.COM>, jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) writes:
> Here is a confusing one:

> Is it ever ok to use the form:
> 	if (a = b * 2 + 39)		/* intentional assignment within condition
> 	*/

Yes, but probably only in the common idiom:

	if((var = func(...)) == STATUS)
	{

Such as:

	if((fp = fopen(...)) == NULL)
	{
		perror(...);
		return FAILURE;
	}

or:

	if((nextc = getchar()) != EOF)
	{
		...
	}
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