When do you use "if ( a = b )"?

[Lars Wirzenius]

In article <10700 at uwm.edu>, markh at csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
>>It's unnecessary, nonproductive extra work. That's the whole point. 
> 
> [changing macros/identifiers makes you learn the source well]

It's unproductive because it forces you to study larger amounts of code
than would otherwise be necessary, if you only need to make small
changes.
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Lars Wirzenius    wirzenius at cc.helsinki.fi