inline assignments in conditionals

[Michael Gilfix]

  I think this example is backwards. Today is the variable.  I'd
usually say: "If today is Sunday, I'm going to go shopping". So much
for that :)

            -- Mike

On Sat, Apr 27 @ 22:37, Laura Creighton wrote:
> Jeremy:
> [snip]
> > Writing things that way is really unnatural, at least for English
> > speakers.  It makes the intent of the code harder to understand (at
> > least for me).  For example, if you were talking to a friend, you
> > wouldn't say:
> > 
> >    "If today is Sunday, I'm going to go shopping"
> > 
> > but rather:
> > 
> >    "If Sunday is today, I'm going to go shopping"
> 
> Interesting.  I would never use the second construct, and I use the
> first one all the time.  I wonder if this is a difference between
> people whose first language is English, and some for whom it was not.
> I don't think that anybody has had any trouble understanding me when I
> say 'If today is Saturday, then we are going to the concert house,
> otherwise we are going to hack.'  But then I have been writing
> if 0 == x for a long time as well.  (It was great -- Borodin Quartet
> playing Sjostakovitj and Beethoven, by the way.)
> 
> Laura Creighton
> 
> 
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