Assignment in test: OK?

[Mark Lawrence]

jh4o+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman) wrote:
} [...] However, I think the intent of the original code was to
} perform an assignment and then do a test on the result (look carefully;
} there's a > or < in there somewhere), similar to the following, which I
} use all the time:
} 
} if ( ( file_ptr = fopen (filename, mode) ) == NULL )
} 	{
} 	/* print a message and exit */
} 	}

right.  I posted the original article.  The most severe caution I got
was about readability.  My concern was that Saber C would give a warning
on code just like the above and I've learned to take Saber's warnings
seriously.  In this case, I'll just suppress the warning.  Thanks, all,
for an illuminating thread of discussion.
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