Funny mistake

Greg Hennessy gsh7w at astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU
Sun Mar 17 05:51:53 AEST 1991


#>>"if (a = b)" instead of "if (a == b)". 
#>... I have yet to see a UNIX compiler complain about it

Doug Gwyn:
#That's good, because it is valid C and the compiler cannot know whether
#or not it reflects the programmer's intentions.

Then perhaps that is why having an optional flag to inform the user of
this sometimes suspicious code fragment may be a good idea.



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