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Subject: Re: proposed change to style(9): require yoda style if statements
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2010/5/11 Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>:
> My proposal is simple:
> require that any if statement that compares a constant to a mutable variable
> be written as
> if (constant == variable)
> instead of
> if (variable == constant)

Use "const" qualification. It's portable and does not require
rewriting conditionals in any way.

Alexander Churanov