“This is also the kind of stuff that you C programmers write bugs with all the time, by mistaking = with ==; to the point where most C compilers these days woul

“This is also the kind of stuff that you C programmers write bugs with all the time, by mistaking = with ==; to the point where most C compilers these days would just flag something like if(a=1) as a warning with default settings.” No it isn’t; we’re not beginners. I learned Pascal before I learned C. Hated the retarded := as superflous.