ThePicMan wrote:
>> I wonder how many millions of dollars have been lost
>> due to IF (I = 1) being written when IF (I == 1) was really intended.
>
> None.. since both produce compile errors.
>
> Since you are putting C under trial, you should at least know that
> C statements are case sensitive..

OK wiseguy.  I was using case just to make the code stand out from the text
around it, which I suspect you fully understood.  But I'm also not that
familiar with C.  Is it really true that keywords like "IF" are case
sensitive?  In other words, "if" is a keyword and "IF" is an arbitrary
identifier?  That sounds like another set of bugs waiting to happen.

And yes I understand that modern C compilers will flag a warning with "=" in
an IF statement, but I am just trying to illustrate overly lax syntax rules.


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