The main purpose of desk-checking is to find bugs from the code. In some cases the discoveries aren't very pleasant for the programmer.
Lippis: " ... and here we check the input from the user. "Lippis: " chr = read_char(); if (chr... " |
(Gulp) |
Heidi: " if (chr = 'Y') Hahahahahaha!"Lippis: " Oh no... " Heidi: " So you really want to change the value of variable in an if-statement? " Lippis: " Beginner's mistake... " Heidi: " Someone else might try comparison in here but inserting a new value is of course perfectly legal too... " Lippis: " I'm gonna die... " |
After this Lippis gets a 20 minute long lecture on the differences between
= and == operands
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