Re: (0 == foo), rather than (foo == 0)

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Hi Andreas.

> > > > The warning should be there whether there are parenthesis or not,
> > > > and it should state that you should have an explicit inequality
> > > > expression. So if you have
> > > > 	if (a = b) 		...
> > > > and you really _mean_ that, then the way to write it sanely is to
> > > > just write it as
> > > > 	if ((a = b) != 0)
> > > > 		...
> > > > which makes it much clearer what you're actually doing.
> > >
> > > Or actually change it to
> > >
> > > a = b;
> > > if (a)
> >
> > That doesn't work with while().
>
>
> But this works:  while (a = b, a != 0).
> (not that it is any better readable :-) ).

My eyes! *Starts clawing them out*

// Stefan
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