C's syntax

[Steve Horne]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:22:52 +1100, "Delaney, Timothy"
<tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:

>commonly. Every decent programmer learns which mistakes are the ones s/he
>makes most frequently and how to identify them. It's just that the =/==
>mistake is one of the most common typos, and hence the one which gets talked
>about most.

I have been programming professionally for years, and still make this
mistake regularly because I frequently use a number of languages. I
also confuse the C != with the ada /= on occasion.

In an application scripting language I wrote a while back, I used ==
and :=, and made = on its own a syntax error - to hopefully prevent
all confusion. Sadly, due to time constraints, the error reporting got
skipped and it really doesn't help :-(

-- 
Steve Horne
sh at ttsoftware.co.uk