Assignment in test: OK?

[Rick Schubert]

In <1990Sep7.042759.3804 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:

>	One way to avoid the =/== pitfall is to write your code like this:

>	if(7 == x) rather than if(x == 7).

>	If you write it the first way, and accidentally write = instead of ==,
>	you will be trying to assign a value to a constant (!!) and will get
>	an error.

I have seen this suggestion in this newsgroup quite a few times in the past
and I always wonder:

    If you remember to put the constant on the left, won't you also remember
to use `==' rather than `='?

[Personally, I think `if(7 == x) is ugly.]

-- Rick Schubert (rns at se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM)