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From: frank@rsoft.UUCP (Frank I. Reiter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: `if (a = b)' (was Standard indentation?)
Message-ID: <5@rsoft.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 88 17:21:43 GMT
References: <1988Dec8.173158.11839@utzoo.uucp> <846@starfish.Convergent.COM> <14945@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: frank@rsoft.UUCP (Frank I. Reiter)
Organization: Reiter Software Inc.
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> Is  if(a = b + c/4)  (or something like this) legal ?

I do it all the time, but I do it like this :

|----
| if(a = b + c/4)   /* Note assignment */
|    whatever();
|----

Similarly I sometime code a switch like this :

|----
|  switch(somevar) {
|  case DELETE :
|       deletesomething();
|       /* Note fall-through */
|  case NEXT :
|       gotonextone();
|       break;
|  case ......
|----

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