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		HeyLaughingBoy on Nov 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: That’s not why I did it At one job I had, our programming standards dictated that we would have to write "if (false == foo)" to account for the case where someone accidentally types = instead of ==

MauranKilom on Nov 25, 2020 | [–]

Commonly called "Yoda conditions":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda_conditions

zentiggr on Nov 25, 2020 | [–]

That's not rare, anyway... unless the linter can flag == <bool>, and suggest fixes.

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