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A comment on Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over 500K Zcoins. Parent comment

Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by steveklabnik on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @11:52AM (#13811960)
No, as assignment always results in (), and if always requires a boolean. This is by design.
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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by tyingq on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @12:27PM (#13812423)
Ah...so this works:

  fn main() {
      let mut x = false;
      println!("{}", x);
      if {x=true;x} {
          println!("{}", x);
      }
  }
But stands out as pretty obvious. Not something you might easily sneak into a codebase.
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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by steveklabnik on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @12:51PM (#13812736)
Sneaky! Yeah, no way this should get past code review, and not even easy to accidentally type.
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