Yoda Conditions

There is a fantastic list of similar jargon:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

At work, we reference these all the time, especially the Ninja comments and the Heisenbugs.

I use this sometimes in my JavaScript to avoid > characters, which trip up Mosaic, which considers > to be the end of HTML comments.

if (42 = myNumber) { /* ... */ }

// A syntax error this is and compile it will not