From owner-cvs-all Wed Feb 21 18: 1: 8 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from green.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449C137B4EC; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:01:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (yxmo7w@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by green.dyndns.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1M1iYl12877; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:44:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200102220144.f1M1iYl12877@green.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Warner Losh Cc: Peter Pentchev , Ben Smithurst , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:45:46 MST." <200102211545.f1LFjls07351@billy-club.village.org> From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:44:33 -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > 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. Pardon me, but most C programmers who have no clue what that means shouldn't be programming in C. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message