Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:00:56 +1100 | From | Peter Williams <> | Subject | Re: (0 == foo), rather than (foo == 0) |
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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.
> If you make > contributions to kernel code, and write: "if (0==foo)", your > code will be reviewed until it is obsolete and never find > its way into the kernel. Please don't insult kernel developers > with this kind of kid-stuff. > > People who develop kernel code also know what a line-warp is. > They put a '\n' "[Enter] key" in their text every so-often, > maybe every 70 to 79 characters... > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson > Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). > Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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