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Re: error message I don understand [message #174889 is a reply to message #174888] Sat, 16 July 2011 09:17 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> VanguardLH wrote:
>> liebling.kreuzberg wrote:
>>
>>> Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>
>>>> Odd, since I said exactly the same thing, with added humour.
>>> Hmmm, strange form of humour. Not my cup of ........
>>> Maybe due to the fact that Englis (nor American) is not my mothertongue.
>>
>> Natural posted 2 hours *after* Billy and, of course, we're supposed to
>> assume that he didn't see Billy's reply to spur him onto the same
>> solution but differently composed.
>>
>> In some programming languages, the "=" is not an assignment operator
>> when its context is within the conditional clause. In others, it is an
>> assignment operator (followed by a Boolean test for true or false) and
>> is sometimes used as a cheat but usually for the right-side operand. If
>> you had reversed the left- and right-side operands you wouldn't get an
>> error in all languages and instead might get an assignment that you
>> didn't expect along with an action by the 'if' that was unplanned.
>>
>> Sometimes another pair of eyes will see your mistake. Too often your
>> eyes see what your mind expects to see. Bouncing between multiple
>> programming languages doesn't help, either. Don't let Natural fool you:
>> this is a mistake common to ALL programmers and shows up often enough
>> that all of them recognize the mistake because it wasn't so long ago
>> since they made that same mistake.
>
> Ah but when I first made it it was because I didn't know better
>
> Today its just a typo.;-)

Never mind, I learned something I didn't know and that is a win.

BR, Schimanski

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