At 02:44 AM 10/16/2004, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:


>On Oct 15, 2004, at 5:55 PM, steve@tla.co.nz wrote:
>
>>The statement "if(3==foo)" is written in the opposite way to how you
>>would describe what the statement is doing, so the statement isn't
>>immediately and inherently self documenting.
>
>I dunno.  It's just not ENGLISH.  Mathematicians will consider
>an equality statement fully reversable; "foo = 3" is precisely
>identical to "3 = foo"; one of the foundations of algebra, sort of.

Yes, but in C, it's not reversible.
In some C compilers, the statement 3 = foo or foo = 3 is not evaluated the 
same way humans do.


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