And there it is - thank you. I knew there had to be a reason, but couldn't quite figure out why and the example in the article (null != variable) was different

And there it is - thank you. I knew there had to be a reason, but couldn't quite figure out why and the example in the article (null != variable) was different enough to confuse the situation. I haven't written anything in C in quite a while, and completely forgot about inline assignments. Which brings me to another pet peeve of mine, inline assignments... ;-)