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Re:Massacring C Pointers by TickleSteve on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @07:37AM (#17399668)
Yoda conditions are protection against an issue that no longer exists in most compilers.

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

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Re:Massacring C Pointers by huhtenberg on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @08:11AM (#17399879)
Precisely! Yet they still pop up and ruin readability of the code just the same.
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