[thelist] Coning conventions, pet peeves

Volkan Özçelik volkan.ozcelik at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 14:19:40 CDT 2016


> By putting the comparison the other way around - making sure that the
thing to the left of the operator is not an lvalue - you make it harder to
make this mistake.

Yup that’s the reason.

Rest assured, Arabs don’t read code right to left :)

You can see [1] for a detailed discussion on the subject matter.

[1]: "Yoda Conditions" http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Yoda_conditions

HTH,

Volkan.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:33 AM Jason Handby <jason.handby at corestar.co.uk>
wrote:

> > By putting the comparison
> > the other way around - making sure that the thing to the left of the
> operator
> > is not an lvalue - you make it harder to make this mistake.
>
> ("lvalue" just means something that can legitimately go on the left of an
> assignment operator.)
>
> Jason
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