proposed change to style(9): require yoda style if statements

[Shteryana Shopova]

In my humble opinion,

With proper -W flags (i.e. -Wall -Werror), the compilation will fail on
 "if (var = const)"

also yoda statements of the kind

if (constant == variable)
obfuscate code and make it more difficult to read,  definately not a
good idea IMHO, added the confusion between old and new code that Max
mentioned.

cheers,
Shteryana


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>> With proper -W flags, "if (var = const)" also yields a warning:
>>
>>  warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value
>>
>> Chaning style(9) in such a fundamental way almost, always isn't a good idea.
>> It's simply unrealistic to change all current code to comply and the
>> difference between old and new code will just add to the confusion.
>
> Per Julian Elischer
> We might suggest it rather than mandate it.
> Also this method is compiler agnostic and generates a stronger warning
> (an error rather than a warning)
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