Assignment in test: OK?

John Gordon gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Fri Sep 7 14:27:59 AEST 1990


	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.


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