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On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
> This looks to me as if someone was planning on putting some
> success/fail/debug code in but just never did it.
Always, always, check your return values.
> Personally I use the first style, but switch it to:
>
> if (1 == testcase) {
>
> That way if you make the common mistake of using a '=' instead of an
> '==' you'll get a compiler error. I have no idea where I first liearned
> this but I tend to use it in any langugae. Putting the constant on the
> left side of the comparison prevents accidentally assigning a value to
> the variable.
Ooo. Now that's a handy tip. Not that I've seen it used much.
--dlloyd
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