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From: jrd@netcom3.netcom.com (Jon Degenhardt)
Subject: Re: Could this be a BAD thing?
In-Reply-To: panzer@cse.ucsc.edu's message of 17 Oct 1994 04:55:34 GMT
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In article <37t046$ic4@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> panzer@cse.ucsc.edu (John Panzer) writes:

>  The common mistake is that the Dylan initialization syntax will IMHO
>  lead to the same sort of hard-to-see bugs which are exemplified by
>  "if (i=42)" in C.

I know people who write  "if (42==I)"  just to avoid this sort of problem.
(i.e. Accidentally writing  "if (42=I)"  will fail to compile.)

--Jon
