C Style (Was Re: == vs =)

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <255 at oink.UUCP> jep at oink.UUCP (James E. Prior) writes:

| Amen!, and I'll go one further
| 
|    if (var==TRUE)
| 
| is not only abominable, it can be dangerous.  var==TRUE tends to presume
| that the only valid values of var are FALSE and TRUE.  There are times
| when a var can very intentionally have a non-zero (true) value other than
| TRUE (1).  The classic kind of case of this is var=isalpha(c).  The

  If you *must* use stuff like this, at least you can write:
	if (var != FALSE)
which is more likely to work. There is only one good reason I can
determine to use code like that: some COBOL programmer wrote the style
specs for your organization.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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