From owner-cvs-all Wed Feb 21 7:48:59 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C91CA37B6A0; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 07:48:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1LFmJh62997; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:48:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.2/8.8.3) with ESMTP id f1LFjls07351; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:45:47 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200102211545.f1LFjls07351@billy-club.village.org> To: Peter Pentchev Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 Cc: Ben Smithurst , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:13:42 +0200." <20010221141342.A98551@ringworld.oblivion.bg> References: <20010221141342.A98551@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200102211210.f1LCAKN41997@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:45:46 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010221141342.A98551@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Peter Pentchev writes: : I've sometimes seen tests like: : if (error = function(a1, a2), error != 0) : Is this not a bit clearer? No. Most C programmers don't have a clue what that means and it doesn't match existing practice. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message