One more point regarding = and == (more flamage)

Guy Helmer ghelmer at dsuvax.uucp
Sun Mar 24 11:29:59 AEST 1991


In <1991Mar22.161333.24290 at dg-rtp.dg.com> hagins at gamecock.rtp.dg.com (Jody Hagins) writes:
>Well, I'm not Henry, but I definitely agree here!  Also, Borland seems
>to agree here as well, since while(*foo++ = *bar++); will generate a 
                                                    ^
>warning message.

It would be nice to have a compiler that would flag unintended empty
statements, too :-)

>Jody Hagins             
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