Re: keyboard selection

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 22 Aug 2007, at 20:12, Graham J Lee wrote:

> On 20 Aug 2007, at 14:39, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>
> > I also try to always write code to test 'if (x == YES)'  rather  
> > than 'if (x)', as it will fail in more cases (and hopefully cause  
> > us to spot errors like that) if someone has done something like  
> > assigning a bitmask to a boolean.
> >
> > Not a big issue, just a bit of coding style that I've found helps  
> > code reliability over the years.
>
> ...a more contentious style (but one I've personally adopted) is to  
> write that as:
> if (YES == x)
> for the simple reason that the PEBKAC error:
> if (YES = x)
> is now a compiler error, rather than a logic problem.

That's a good idea.