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Re: assignment inside boolean expression [message #20609 is a reply to message #20593]

Mon, 10 July 2000 00:00

promashkin
Messages: 169
Registered: December 1999

Senior Member

I can't see why is this unexpected. Anything in parenthesis gets
processed first, then evaluated. It looks the same as writing IF 1 THEN
... I can't see a source of bugs here, but it sure is possible to make
nested, parenthesized code that no other mind will be able to comprehend.
Cheers,
Pavel

Patrick Broos wrote:
>
> I was wondering if it's common knowlege that one can put an IDL
> assignment inside
> a boolean expression (like in the C language). For example
>
> if (v = 0) then ... assigns v and does not execute the "then"
> statement, while
> if (v = 1) then ... assigns v and does execute the then.
>
> Just as in C I find this leads to really nasty bugs..

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		Re: assignment inside boolean expression By: Jeffrey Jones on Tue, 11 July 2000 00:00
		Re: assignment inside boolean expression By: Ben Tupper on Tue, 11 July 2000 00:00
		Re: assignment inside boolean expression By: promashkin on Tue, 11 July 2000 00:00
		Re: assignment inside boolean expression By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 11 July 2000 00:00
		Re: assignment inside boolean expression By: K. Bowman on Tue, 11 July 2000 00:00
		Re: assignment inside boolean expression By: Ben Tupper on Tue, 11 July 2000 00:00
		Re: assignment inside boolean expression By: promashkin on Mon, 10 July 2000 00:00
		Re: assignment inside boolean expression By: Liam E. Gumley on Mon, 10 July 2000 00:00
		Re: assignment inside boolean expression By: Liam E. Gumley on Mon, 10 July 2000 00:00

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