On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As I very humorously hinted at in a earlier mail on this thread, it is a
> very, very good idea to get into the habit of putting constants *first* in
> if/while/etc statements.
>
> if ("Dan S" = $user_name)
>
> PHP/C/C++ etc. Bombs with a syntax error.
>
> if ($user_name = "Dan S")
>
> Works silently and looks right at first glance.
>
> I forced myself to write things that way round a good number of years ago
> and it has served me well and caught a few potential mishaps.
You raise a very good and valid point, Col. I format my code that
way with C/C++, BASH, even Tcl/Tk (yeah, I said it), but for some
reason I never remember to do it in PHP. I think it's time to start
forcing myself to develop that habit.
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