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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
To: "Marc Rouaix" <rouaix@my-dejanews.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 02:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vyzra05vqzo.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <JMDHPDCIACOECAAA@my-dejanews.com>

"Marc Rouaix" <rouaix@my-dejanews.com> writes:

|> I'd just like to register my opiniont that code like
|> 
|> if (x = p()) {...}
|> 
|> shouldn't generate a warning under gcc -Wall.

What if you have a typo here?

|>  Even if
|> you feel that code like this is obscure, the recommended
|> 
|> if ((x = p())) {...}
|> 
|> is just bizarre.

Then write it as:

	x = p();
	if (x) {...}

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

  reply	other threads:[~1998-07-01  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-06-30 19:49 Marc Rouaix
1998-07-01  2:51 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
1998-07-01  9:20   ` Richard Earnshaw
1998-07-01 21:20     ` Bill Currie
1998-07-02  7:08       ` Richard Earnshaw
1998-07-03  3:31         ` Nathan Sidwell
1998-07-03  6:15           ` Richard Earnshaw
1998-07-01  3:42 ` Branko Cibej
1998-07-02  7:08 ` Carlo Wood
1998-07-03 14:48   ` Kamil Iskra
1998-07-01  4:00 Brad M. Garcia
1998-07-01 20:20 ` Tim Hollebeek
1998-07-02  1:39 ` Harvey J. Stein

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