APL\360

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/29/21 4:12 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
> 
>> On 01/29/2021 2:58 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
> 
>> '=' and '==' makes possible what is probably the most common error, and
>> which the compiler doesn't catch:
>> if (x = 3) . . . /* sets x to 3 and gives TRUE for the condition */
>> I imagine that there are probably some pre-processors that would return a
>> WARNING for it.
>>
> 
> Modern Visual Studio and GCC both flag the "=" in a condition, I believe.  But if you're shipping code with 260+ warnings, who would see one more.

And the problem here is really quite plain and simple.
Why are you shipping code with any warnings?

> 
> There's a pretty good chance the heat pump you're using right now has those warnings.  Alas...

Just because some other programmer is an idiot doesn't mean I have
to be.

bill