Author: richard reynolds Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Quota over 2GB supported?
> I recently became aware of a programming convention where you put the > constant on the lhs, that is, you write "if (42 == n)" instead of
> "if (n == 42)". The idea is that you will get a compiler error if you
> write "=" instead of "==". However, if you do write "if (n = 42)" gcc
> warns you about it, so I am not convinced of the merits of this, since
> it reads rather unnaturally.
I was trying to come up with a nice analogy of this, cause I know there are
a few, but I just couldnt do it. That is the way I learned to use constants,
and it has worked for me, it just becomes natural with time.
