>>> It's the reason why developers ought to use ("mystring"==myvar) instead of
>>> (myvar=="mystring").
> For what reason is this ?
It mitigates the following class of bugs (not the single = sign instead of ==):
if (myvar = "mystring") // will compile/run but behave incorrectly
if ("mystring" = myvar) // won't compile/run and you can fix it right away
Based on an earlier response in the thread, if this seems pedantic to
some readers, take into consideration that millions of programmers
will be writing billions of if statements each year which will yield a
thousand bugs at an error rate of 0.0001% or 1 in a million. The
cost-benefit of simply switching the order is clear.
-- Aleem
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