C's syntax
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Tue Oct 24 12:07:08 EDT 2000
Alex Martelli wrote:
> Koenig wrote his landmark book with about a decade's worth of C
> experience (one could hardly have more back then, since that was
> about the language's age inside Bell Labs:-), and he disagreed
> with you, recommending the "if(0==a)" idiom. And why not?
It is a stylistic issue, and so is always a point of contention. Even f
you find yourself making the = vs. == errors, a good compiler will warn
you. If you're not using a good compiler, that's not the language's
fault.
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