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Any good instructor will tell you... (Score:1)

by miner (6650) on 2006.01.31 16:56 (#45960)

That is the only way to construct a conditional.

It forces you to think carefully about times where you actually do want assignment in a conditional (which you may), and it turns erroneous assignments in to a compilation error.
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