Better coding style for comparison

This tip submitted by nids on 2006-01-31 07:57:07. It has been viewed 38464 times.
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Always try to compare like

if ( 0 == i )

rather than

if ( i == 0)

In this way you can catch error for unintended assignments like

if ( 0 = i)

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