Re: (0 == foo), rather than (foo == 0)

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:00:56 +1100 Peter Williams wrote:

| Richard B. Johnson wrote:
| > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| > 
| > 
| >>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:46:40 +0530 Godbole, Amarendra \(GE Consumer &
| >>Industrial\) wrote:
| >>
| >>Hi,
| >>
| >>While writing code, the assignment operator (=) is many-a-times
| >>confused with the comparison operator (==) resulting in very subtle
| >>bugs difficult to track. To keep a check on this -- the constant
| >>can be written on the LHS rather than the RHS which will result
| >>in a compile time error if wrong operator is used.
| >>
| > 
| > 
| > People who develop kernel code know the difference between
| > '==' and '=' and are never confused my them.
| 
| And you never make typing mistakes?  That's admirable or should I say 
| incredible.

Whoa.  stop the presses.  an on-$subejct posting.

Please, let's kill all the other fuss about email crapola...

--
~Randy
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