Funny mistake

[Bill Campbell]

In <15481 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>In article <8148 at rsiatl.Dixie.Com> stan at Dixie.Com (Stan Brown) writes:
>>>"if (a = b)" instead of "if (a == b)". 
>>... I have yet to see a UNIX compiler complain about it

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

My personal preferance would be a WARNING message.  Certainly it
is a legal construction, but 90% of the time when I do this it
was my mistake!  I'm not perfect and I would like the compiler to
point out places where it is likely that I didn't do something
right.

I usually avoid this particular construction simply because every
time I look at it at some later date I will have to figure out
whether I did it right in the first place :-)

Bill
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