== vs =

[Stephen J. Friedl]

< In article <226 at hotlr.ATT>, dkc at hotlr.ATT (Dave Cornutt) writes:
< > [...]                               D is another matter; catching the
< > accidental misapplication of "=" in "if" statements would be worth it.
< 
< The one thing that everyone seems to have forgotten in this discussion
< is that `=' is NOT always invalid in and if clause:

Just for the record, some of use both flavors in an |if| test...

{
FILE	*fp;

	if (fp = fopen(file, "r"), fp == NULL)
	{
		...

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