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From: badri@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: `if (a = b)' (was Standard indentation?)
Summary: Why?
Message-ID: <1683@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 88 19:41:59 GMT
References: <1988Dec8.173158.11839@utzoo.uucp> <846@starfish.Convergent.COM> <14945@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: UR Dept. of Electrical Engg, Rochester NY 14627
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In article <14945@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> I still prefer two separate statements, with one exception:
> (example follows.) 

I am missing something here. Why is

a = expr; if (a == b) {statement}

preferable, in general, to

if ((a = expr) == b) {statement}

I think the second form is more concise and often more readable,
as per K & R II ed., pp. 16-17.
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