6 Feb
2002
6 Feb
'02
4:59 a.m.
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Julius Sridhar wrote:
Capitalization.
Peace... Sridhar
Even without my failure to maintain case in the variable, it would still
return 2 instead of 7 due to premature termination of conditional
expression (semicolon), and due to assignment instead of comparison in
condition (= instead of ==). Amongst folks as careless as myself, those
two seem to be the two most common typos in C programs.
> Two more common mistakes: (that means ones that
I do frequently)
>
> N = 2;
> X = 3;
> . . .
> if (x > 10);
> {
> return(N);
> }
> N = 7;
> return(N);
>
> and:
>
> N = 2;
> X = 3;
> . . .
> if (x = 10)
> {
> return(N);
> }
> N = 7;
> return(N);
>
> Look for why both sections return 2 instead of 7.