Re: [MLUG] Quick programming question on style

[McIntosh Jason <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Jun 3, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Dave Lloyd wrote:

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.

Amen, amen, amen. :)

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

I think there was a Linux Journal that talked about this at some point, although I can't remember now, but I did see this a while back.  Course, I completely forgot about it until now - good reminder :)

Jason

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