[bind10-dev] [bikeshed] "variable == value" vs "value == variable"

[Warren Kumari]

On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:16 PM, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:

> At Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:50:13 +0100,
> Michal 'vorner' Vaner <michal.vaner at nic.cz> wrote:
> 
>>>   if (10 == x) {
>> 
>> Do we really have this in our code? That looks strange to me and confusing.

Just FYI, this is common practice in some venues -- while it looks confusing, it helps prevent the:

if (x=10) { 

problem -- basically, by putting the literal first, you get a grumpy compiler then trying to assign to it…

W


> 
> Probably (hopefully) not in the latest master.  But there were some in
> the past, e.g.
> - the master immediately after #1600 was merged.  checkout 77ab7a and
>  see asiodns/dns_service.cc.
> - a previous version of trac1579.  checkout 29e01b and see
>  database.cc:findInternal().
> 
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