Re: Ada Leaking Into Day Job

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

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Bj�rn Persson expounded in news:80l74nFptU1@mid.individual.net:

> Adam Beneschan wrote:
> 
>>    if (code /= 0) { ... }
>> 
>> This is valid C, so the compiler won't complain
> 
> Are you sure? ;-)
> 
> int main(int argc, char** argv) {
>    int code = 1;
>    if(code /= 0) {
>       return 1;
>    }
>    return 0;
> }
> 
> [beorn@hactar tester]$ LANG=en gcc ada_not_equal.c 
> ada_not_equal.c: In function 'main':
> ada_not_equal.c:3: warning: division by zero
> 
> That's even without the otherwise indispensable -Wall.
> 
> The problem I have most often when I switch languages is that I get =,
> := and == mixed up.

Yep, I've been having to backspace over some := in my
awk scripts lately also.

Warren