From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (0 <= i && i < N) is not "backwards"
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:59:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmobe7fru4.fsf@hawking.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvli9bmudz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:23:56 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> For equality comparisons, there's another reason to do "2 == x" rather
> than "x == 2", which is that if you happen to miswrite it as "2 = x", the
> compiler will detect the error.
Fortunately, the emacs source is free from this ugliness.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-25 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-24 23:14 (0 <= i && i < N) is not "backwards" Paul Eggert
2013-03-24 23:53 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-03-25 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-25 14:59 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2013-03-25 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-25 14:35 ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-25 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-25 14:58 ` Noah Lavine
2013-03-25 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-25 15:28 ` Noah Lavine
2013-03-25 16:49 ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-25 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-30 21:45 ` Jim Meyering
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