equals assignment

[Dan]

Heehee... today I retired from my job.
On thursday I'm going to a tropical island.  That said...


I think the real solution is to just use the right operator, and recognize the difference between = and ==, just like you know to put a semicolon at the end.  It's trivial.

Worry about metaprogramming or 'in' operator for normal arrays, proveability or something.  : p

Michiel Helvensteijn Wrote:
> renoX wrote:
> 
> > Another solution is the gcc hack of making the compiler warn on any =
> > inside a 'if' except when there is a (( )), it's a hack but it's a more
> > complete solution..
> 
> When should an assignment be used as part of an expression anyway? It's only
> a way to make code more compact and less readable.
> 
> Maybe an assignment just shouldn't return anything.
> 
> I think the compiler should still be able to implicitly cast int to bool,
> though.
> 
> -- 
> Michiel
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