Assignment in test: OK?

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <1599 at mitisft.Convergent.COM> dold at mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes:
> I saw this in some code posted to the net awhile ago:
>    if (foo = 0)		/* Really an assignment */
> Which is at least intelligible, and (possibly) rules out item 2 above.
> I still don't think it is good coding practice.

Probably not, as the if will always evaluate to false. :-)

---Dan