Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!mdfreed
From: mdfreed@ziebmef.uucp (Mark Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: C Ternary Conditional Expression?
Message-ID: <1989Jun5.150238.15610@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 5 Jun 89 19:02:37 GMT
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(C-bashing ...)
>     Worst is:
>        if (a = b)  <some statement>

   Most MS-DOS compilers issue a warning  (e.g. "possible unintended assignmentt").
    The first time I found a typo because of this sort of warning, I nearly
forgave Datalight for all the other bugs in its C compiler :-)
  
    I suppose that other environments (i.e. UNIX) rely on standalone utilities
such as lint. This may be less convenient.