Re: (0 == foo), rather than (foo == 0)

[Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com>]

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 code will be reviewed until it is obsolete and never find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
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> 
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