C's syntax

[Olivier Dagenais]

> It then follows that you can easily write
> foo *bar,baz;
> One pointer to a bar, one whole baz.

Case in point for Alex, that should be one pointer to a 'foo' and one whole
'foo' (whatever 'foo' currently is 'typedef'ed.)  :p

> care if some newbie writes 'if (a=0)...' when they mean 'if (a==0)'
because
> I don't. Anyway, they should be writing 'if (!a) ...'

To get around this, we were taught to put the constant on the other side, so
that if we forgot an '=', we would get a compiler error:

if ( 0 = a )   /* is bad */
if ( 0 == a )  /* is good */


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