Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:29:59 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 Message-ID: <200102220329.f1M3TxW02161@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:44:33 EST." <200102220144.f1M1iYl12877@green.dyndns.org> References: <200102220144.f1M1iYl12877@green.dyndns.org>
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In message <200102220144.f1M1iYl12877@green.dyndns.org> "Brian F. Feldman" writes: : Warner Losh <imp@village.org> 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. "Don't build it, maybe they won't come" But they came anyway. If I wrote code like the above, I'd have to spend half of my day defending it or explaining it or both. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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