May be irritating for some but good practice regardless.
Putting the constant left in a conditional means you will never miss an accidental = instead of ==.
Putting the constant left in a conditional means you will never miss an accidental = instead of ==.
That's only useful for dumb languages
>>> a = 5
>>> if a = 3: print 'ok'; else: print 'nok'
File "<stdin>", line 1
if a = 3: print 'ok'; else: print 'nok'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
I carefully weighted my words, and I rest my case.
The compilers/interpreters I know that don't do this are PHP and Perl (C/C++ will do it if you use -Wall, which you should be using anyway).
So yeah, you're pretty much right. /snark
Don't be an idiot in the first place and you won't have to do idiotic things to prevent damage from your idiocy.
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