Re: [Firebird-devel] lint

[Mike N. <ta...@al...>]

Ann W. Harrison wrote:
>
> Be still my beating heart.  Despite lint, I say that
>
>      if (!(a = b))
>          a = c;
>
> is a legitimate alternative to
>
>      a = (b) ? b : c;

The words of a true C hacker! :-)

If aiming for readability (and debugability, which your first example
doesn't lend itself easy to), what about:

    a = b;
    if (!a) {
        a = c;
    }

Also when initializing references in C++ (I know, we aren't there just yet)
you have but a few choices, of which you latter example displays a pretty
clear way to do it.


/Mike