Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:20:49 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad programming practice? Message-ID: <20010223152049.A31038@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010223143019.E32113@peorth.iteration.net>; from keichii@iteration.net on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:30:20PM -0600 References: <20010223180321.A33329@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010223143019.E32113@peorth.iteration.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:30:20PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > Personally, I think most C/C++ programmers eventually learn to always > watch for == vs. = mistakes right when they type the boolean expression. > Hence, the trick becomes useless as one advances. There's also the fact that GCC and other compilers with even vaguly decent warnings complain about this mistake if you turn warnings on. I think it's probably not bad practice in a corprate environment where you can enforce a style, but it's probably unnecessicary with decent tools. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6lvBQXY6L6fI4GtQRAmLyAJ9YrhYOWzTrsshr+v1UVy0q4YaLIwCfVCYz Bm4wCep2kz6JHa2YpD6k/8U= =qGwJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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